Last week I had the opportunity to cross something off my bucket list: sailing faster than the wind. Now at first this sounds like a preposterous idea – if the wind is pushing you, then how could you go faster than it? It seems the equivalent of the Baron Munchausen pulling himself from a swamp by his own hair. Or powering a sailboat by blowing into the sails (maybe with a huge fan?). Before providing an explanation, here is a brief video I filmed on the Lending Club 2 in the San Francisco ba...

Last week I had the opportunity to cross something off my bucket list: sailing faster than the wind. Now at first this sounds like a preposterous idea – if the wind is pushing you, then how could you go faster than it? It seems the equivalent of the Baron Munchausen pulling himself from a swamp by his own hair. Or powering a sailboat by blowing into the sails (maybe with a huge fan?). Before providing an explanation, here is a brief video I filmed on the Lending Club 2 in the San Francisco ba...