how sailships can sail upwind.

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I tried to google it and it left me very confused.

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A sail is not a cloth catching wind. Its a vertical wing. Sailers can angle the sail to best cut through the wind to create “lift” moving the ship forward.
The real mind blower is that a ship can theoretically travel faster than the wind speed.

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