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The wind is what causes a sailboat to sail.
Sailboat is to sail as kite is to fly, just as airplane is to wing and oil tanker is to engine.
Yes, sailboat is a compound word. (sail + boat = sailboat)
its sails
I learned to sail in a 7-foot long sailboat that regularly achieved 20 knots.
A sailboat without a sail is but a hull of itself.
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It depends on how fast that small sailboat is traveling. The wind also varies in intensity greatly, so there really isn't an average wind speed to even try to calculate how long it would take one sailboat to sail one mile.
It will take a sailboat 24 hours traveling at 5 miles per hour to sail 120 miles.
It will take a sailboat 24 hours traveling at 5 miles per hour to sail 120 miles.
It is called the lateen sail.
Um.........you just said the answer. its called a sail