You will feel 10 knots of wind on your face.

How does a yacht travel faster than the wind. It is often faster than regular motor-yachts to get to the fishing grounds and back quickly. The wind is doing two things said Margot Gerritsen an engineering professor at Stanford. Once the boat reaches the same speed as the wind its impossible to go any faster.

However heres where common sense hits a tree when yachts sail at a 45-degree angle into the wind they can in fact go faster than the breeze that powers them. But when the boat travels at an angle to the true wind the apparent wind suddenly generates a powerful force. Yachts are slower in rough weather.

Rick Cavallaro and his team at DDWFTTW succeeded in making a wind powered vehicle that travels downwind at a speed faster than the wind itself. You motor towards a distant point at 10 knots. The result is that the boat moves forward.

The sails divert the wind slightly as it blows across them which slows the wind and exerts a sideways force on the sail. Normally has a large cockpit to store fishing essentials. That dragging is done with this force called lift.

It was constructed by Rick Cavallaro and John Borton of Sportvision sponsored by Google and Joby Energy in association with the San. As the boat speed approaches the wind speed the relative wind drops towards zero and so there is no force on the sail. The wind is fasterthan the boat so the air is deceleratedby the sails.

The wind blows into the sails and pushes against them. On the opposite side a yacht can travel much further in optimum weather conditions when the engines dont have to fight against the wind and choppy waters. Most small sail boats have only one sail because the square footage of sail area is big enough to collect enough wind to push a light boat.