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Sail Boat
What Sail Boat is a Delight to Sail ? A Catamaran
One of the many advantages of the catamaran sail boat is its double hull. This hull makes it lighter and, therefore, faster. The catamaran is an all together snappy boat due to its stability, lightness, speed and power.
Even though the catamarans current shape or design owes much to the South Pacific the boat's name originates in India, from the name of the Tamil words kattu (to tie) and maram (wood or tree). It is a boat with an ancient lineage. The Polynesians used the catamaran sail boat to settle far off islands. The English remarked upon the boat and its usage, but it was not manufactured as a viable craft until centuries later.
Since then, Europeans, Australians and Americans have adopted and adapted the catamaran sail boat to produce what is now considered one of the fastest growing segments of the sail boating industry.
The reasons for this growing popularity of the catamaran sail boat lies, mainly, with its multi-hull. The wider beam provides the boat with a stability sometimes lacking in mono-hulls. This means the sail is more likely to stay upright in a gust of wind. As a result, another benefit is that the catamaran sail boat draws more power from the wind than a mono-hull while avoiding heeling (leaning) over.
The catamaran sail boat lacks a keel counterweight. With out it, a catamaran is lighter. It does not lose out in its performance on the water, particularly in moderate or light wind conditions. The catamaran creates a distinct snappy action motion when its hull slaps up and down on the waves.
In the proper conditions, the catamaran sail boat has a higher than average speed. This is especially true in coastal waters. Here, where the beaches and bays provide shelter, conditions produce the right type of waves for maximum speed for this multi-hulled craft.
Beside speed, the catamaran sail boat has practical advantages.The catamaran sail boat can be easily beached because of the sail boat's shoal draft. You can moor it in a shallow harbor or at low tide easily stash the boat ashore for maintenance. Yet, the catamaran sail boat can also be put on a trailer for portage or relocation. It may, however, because of its size have to be canted to remove any possible transportation violations or problems.
Overall, the catamaran sail boat is good for long distance cruising as well as for day sailors. Its variance in size provides a wide variety of choice within a consistent offering of speed, stability and comfort. A perfect delight to sail under ideal conditions is the catamaran sail boat.
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How can a sail boat achieve speeds faster than the velocity of the wind?
I know, or think I know, that ice boats can go 100 mph, which makes no sense to me: I would assume you could only go as fast as the speed of the wind. Is this only true if you're sailing with the wind at your back?
When going at an angle to the wind, sails work with the combination of the true (natural) wind and the wind that your forward motion creates. This is called apparent wind, and is a greater force than just the true wind alone.
The reason that sailing to an angle is important is that sails are foils. Like an airplane wing, they create a vacuum that creates lift and sucks the boat forward (unless the wind is at your back, which is actually the slowest way to sail). The larger the sail area, the larger a vacuum you create, and the faster you can go.
(Also, if you're curious, the reason you can't sail directly into the wind is because it makes the sail flap like a flag. This destroys the curved shape in the sail, which is what makes it a foil and what creates the forward motion)
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