how sailships can sail upwind.

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

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Well, they don’t sail upwind. What they do is adjust their sails so the ship moves at an angle of less than 90 degrees to where the wind is blowing from. They commonly sail in a zig zag pattern , slowly movin “upwind”, but always sailing at an angle.

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