page_title: Sail
hierarchical_section_title: Sail
caption_attribution_description: English: wooden sailing boat Kleine Freiheit - 70 year old gaff cutter - operation: Abenraa - Denmark Deutsch: Segelboot Kleine Freiheit - 70 Jahre alter Gaffelkutter - gegenwärtiger Standort: Abenraa Fjord - Dänemark Eesti: Purjekas, puust purjepaat - 70 aasta vanune kahvelkutter Kleine Freiheit - praegune asukoht: Abenraa - Taani
context_page_description: A sail is a large piece of cloth on the top of some boats. The wind goes around the sail and makes the boat move through the water. The piece that the sail is attached to is called a mast. Some boats have many sails, and some have only one. Usually, small boats have only one sail, and bigger boats have more. Boats with sails are called sailing boats. There are many different names for different kinds of sailing boats with different kinds of sails.
  Before people made boats with engines that used coal or oil, sailing boats were an important way to travel across oceans. Now they are not so important for transport, but they are still used for recreation and competition.
context_section_description: A sail is a large piece of cloth on the top of some boats. The wind goes around the sail and makes the boat move through the water. The piece that the sail is attached to is called a mast. Some boats have many sails, and some have only one. Usually, small boats have only one sail, and bigger boats have more. Boats with sails are called sailing boats. There are many different names for different kinds of sailing boats with different kinds of sails. 
  Before people made boats with engines that used coal or oil, sailing boats were an important way to travel across oceans. Now they are not so important for transport, but they are still used for recreation and competition.
caption: Sailing boat
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