Sailing upwind seems impossible, yet it shaped exploration, trade, and naval power for centuries. This breaks down the physics of lift, hull resistance, keels, and tacking to show how sailors learned ...

Humans have been sailing various seas and oceans for thousands of years, and using boats for potentially even longer than that. But as a species we wouldn’t have made it very far if it was only ...

Last week, we talked about different larger sailing vessels that were common in the 17th, and 18th. and 19th centuries and how they were used. While much of the same terminology is used to describe ...