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When sailing upwind, the boat can sail at less than 20 degrees off theapparentwind.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.But if you pedal 10 mph due south, you will feel anapparentwindof 5 mph from the south.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.If you pedal at 10 mph due north, you will feel anapparentwindof 15 mph from the north.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.If the ship moves upwind, the two winds are cumulative, and theapparentwindis larger than the actual wind.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The shape of the sail is approximated by a plane perpendicular to theapparentwind.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Theapparentwindis at an acutely aft angle to the axis of the ship.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.At each speed increaseapparentwinddirection moves.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This is consistent with the yacht being able to sail at about 15 degrees off theapparentwind, see the table above.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Figure 1 shows the relationship of the true wind andapparentwindvectors as differing by the yacht velocity.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The effect of this is to radically change theapparentwinddirection when sailing downwind.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Theapparentwindis not constant for two reasons: wind and sea.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.So if the sailor increases theapparentwindwith the true wind fixed, the boat speed increases, with some practical limits.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The more the boat accelerates the more theapparentwindincreases.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Setting smaller sails moderates thisapparentwindeffect.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The lift depends on several factors including primarily theapparentwindspeed, averaged over the entire sail, which depends heavily on the vessel's list.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.From downwind to a broad reach, the boat is more rapid, taking advantage of the increasingapparentwindeffect.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The polar plot is independent of theapparentwindspeed.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The more the boat approaches the true wind speed the lower theapparentwindpushing the sail.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Iceboats can sail even closer to theapparentwind.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Alpha is the angle of the sails to theapparentwind.
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