How a Sail Works | How to Sail | Sailing Tutorial

Join me on a comprehensive sailing lessen about the basics of how a sail works. I will teach you the theoretical knowledge of how to trim a sail and I will show you in a fun experiment why both sides of the sail are important. As a professional Nacra 17 sailor I know how important the sails on a sailboat are and if you understand how they work you can sail any kind of sailing boat. In this tutorial I will also cover tell tales. We bought a big sailing ship. So we started a new Youtube channel. https://youtu.be/Ea7nEmij8TI There we share: ) The restauration project ) The voyages ) And some boating knowledge 00:00 Intro 00:20 How a sail works 00:52 sailing by drag 01:56 square rigged ships 04:13 concept of airflow / sailing by lift 05:20 experiment 07:45 4 states of the sail 08:00 luffing sail 09:00 undertrim 10:07 correct / optimum trim 10:05 overtrim 12:30 telltales 14:40 summary Pictures: Cutty Sark painting: https://bit.ly/3lE7DeX Sailors aloft, Garthsnaid: https://bit.ly/310cv4I Viking ship: https://bit.ly/3s2FkJG Greek galley: https://bit.ly/3vFicD3 Cutty Sark: https://bit.ly/3tHq0mb Sailor in storm: https://bit.ly/38Tg1SL Sailor Cape Horn, Parma: https://bit.ly/3cOiVJt Pamir:https://bit.ly/3s3A7RV Passat: https://bit.ly/3r1sIkz Padua, Kruzenshtern: https://bit.ly/3eVglEn Steam ship: https://bit.ly/3s30o2J Dockworker: https://bit.ly/3cR7kJS Albert Einstein: https://bit.ly/2PabBja Capt. Alex Teschner, "old salt": https://bit.ly/2OIFG9Y Thumbnail Pamir: https://bit.ly/3lE87Sj