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A wing that learned to swim, turning invisible wind into anywhere you want to go.
means A piece of fabric stretched to catch the wind and drive a boat across water; or, as a verb, to travel by such a craft.
from From Old English 'segl,' the cloth on a mast, with kin all across the Germanic family — Old Norse 'segl,' Dutch 'zeil,' German 'Segel.' The deeper root is uncertain; one suggestion ties it to a sense of 'cut piece' (a sail being a length of cut cloth), but that's speculative. What's solid is its age: Northern Europeans were naming this windcatching sheet long before they wrote much else down.
- upwind trick
- Sails generate lift like airplane wings, beating into wind
- ancient tech
- Egyptians sailed the Nile over 5,000 years ago
- size matters
- Cutty Sark carried over 32,000 square feet of canvas
- speed king
- Sailboats can outrun the wind pushing them
america's cup — yacht racing competition held since 1851, oldest international sporting trophy
volvo ocean race — around-the-world yacht race circumnavigating globe in 9 months, held every 3 years