Illustration from NEPTUNIA
Sails - What are the "points of sailing" ?
- Close hauled: generally at 45 degrees on one side or the other of the direction from where the wind is coming.
- Beam reach: the ship is navigating perpendicular to the direction of the wind.
- Run: the ship navigates before the wind.
- Close reach: between close hauled and beam reach.
- Broad reach: between run and beam reach.
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