Under De Sail

In order for a yacht to demonstrate its best seaworthiness, it must be steered differently under different conditions. Unlike a car, in which you can just sit down, start the engine and go, on a sailboat you need to correctly set the sails, master the technique of controlling them.

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Setting the sails

The yacht won’t go against the wind

After all, this will lead to the fact that the airflow on both sides of the sail will be the same, which in turn will cause the sail to flush, and it will lose its aerodynamic shape, which creates forward thrust.


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Aleksander Frost
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Balancing the vessel

The hull of the yacht is designed so that the boat will show its best seaworthiness when sailing when the water level coincides with the waterline. If the boat is balanced so that the bow or stern rises up, the water level will not line up with the waterline and, like a flat tire, it will move, but poorly.

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