Bonus points if you can type it out as incomprehensibly as possible

  • riley
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    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      3 years ago

      With the right sails you can sail as close as I think 20 or 30 degrees of the wind. So not quite straight in the wind, but not far off.

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        • sysgen [none/use name,they/them]
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          3 years ago

          It's not, because you're reducing the kinetic energy of the wind, so it's fine. It's still wildly counterintuitive lmao

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Nope. the windmill on the deck is driving a turbine which is either driving a propeller directly or driving a generator that drives a propeller. The wind isn't pushing the ship, it's just spinning the wind mill, and the prop is pushing the ship.