Tacking Into The Wind Sailing
could viking long ships tack into the wind?
Pictures show them with square sails but turned into the beam.
Tacking by square rigged vessels was not generally done. They jibbed with the wind across the stern. Sailing on this point of sailing could not take place since they didn’t have center boards or lee boards to keep them from sliding across the water sideways.
Ted Sailing on the Chesapeake Bay
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