How can sailboats go faster than the wind speed?

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Is it the apparent wind created by forward momentum? Is it possible to go downwind faster than the wind speed?

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The best analogy I’ve heard for this is ice skating. When you are ice skating and trying to accelerate, you push the skate at an outward angle with every stride – and you will end up going faster than the speed at which you are pushing out against the ice.

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