Does anyone knows about the history of sailing?

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does anyone know anything about the history of sailing?How it works?

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The Early Ships of the Explorers.
There was no such thing as an exploration model of ship. Captains, with their knowledge and experience had to acquire whatever they could get their hands on and find venture capitalists, people who would support and finance their journeys of exploration.

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How well or richly the trip was backed by such mentors decided on how well the ship was prepared, often rebuild and rearmed, and how good ( and honest) the chandler was.

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Ships for exploration, not for style

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Most ships for exploration were ex-trading ships re-fitted for the long journey. They were small, short and stubby for strength. Their bows lifted to on-coming waves and their high sterns prevented them being swamped from behind. Many of them we only 70 - 100 metres in length. That's about 6 -9 sedan cars put end to end. Not a large home for a hundred or so men to live for 3 - 5 years sometimes. While improvements in ship design had enabled the sailing ships of the 17th & 18th Centuries to travel much faster into the wind, the slower, smaller and 15th century boats were safer.

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The physics of sailing
The energy that drives a sailboat is obtained by manipulating the relative movement of wind and water speed; if there is no difference in movement, such as on a calm day or when the wind and water current are moving in the same direction, there is no energy to be extracted and the sailboat will not be able to do anything but drift. Where there is a difference in motion, then there is energy to be extracted at the interface, and the sailboat does this by placing the sail(s) in the air and the hull(s) in the water.

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