Moding involves three ways of sailing upwind: sailing in a VMG mode, which is the best angle and speed for your boat in the given conditions; sailing in a high mode, which means higher and slower ...

There are a number of methods for sailing upwind, but generally only up to a certain angle. [rctestflight] wondered if there was some way of sailing straight upwind instead and built this rotary ...

A fundamental law of sailing boats is that when they are sailing with the wind, i.e. in the same direction as the wind, they can’t sail faster than the wind itself. Sailing boats can go faster ...

Flay is working with the New Zealand archaeologist and sailor Geoff Irwin to test the theory that prehistoric explorers colonized the South Pacific by sailing upwind from West to East. For most of ...