Windmilling up wind.

I missed last year's (?) thread but but a good troll deserves a re-run.

You can windmill up wind and over tide, I know, I've seen it done.

There was an Iroquois,(A hell of a waste of a boat that I would love to have) on the Blackwater back in the seventies which had a windmill attached to its mast which was used to drive a propellor.

It was hellish slow in any direction but it would go straight upwind.

From personal observation at the time it would have been a whole lot faster to fly a conventional rig and tack when necessary but I dare swear the owner loved it. Most others laughed themselves silly once they had rubbed the sheer incredulity from their eyes, (Self included) but each to his own.

Tony Cook
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