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Originally posted by sab39:
...the little I know about sailing suggests that the only way you can sail into the wind is pretty heavily dependant on having a rudder...

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Originally posted by Dewrastler:
I've done some sailing and it kind of works out like this. Usually when you sail you are not aiming to be pushed by the wind. You are trying to be pulled by it, like a wing. So when the wind blows from the north, or northly, you sail as close into as you can. You can't sail directly north, but you try to get as close to it as you can. So when mal says that when the wind blows northerly, he goes north, he is actually correct. Though you can be pushed by a northerly wind, it is much more efficient to be pulled by one and head north.

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Originally posted by DonCoat:
...as an adverb, 'northerly' can mean either "toward the north" or "from the north"...

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