How does it move?

Question

The ships like the ones on 'Pirates of the Caribbean', they have no engine and no propellers, so how do they move? Do they move with the wind or some other way?

Answer 1

sails. Those old square riggers sailed best with the wind. They could sail off the wind, but not anywhere nearly as well as a modern sailboat with it's adjustable sails. These can sail much closer into a headwind.

Answer 2

The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind . . .

Answer 3

They move with the wind my friend.

Answer 4

Wind, and when the wind died out they ate beans and sailed on..........lol

Answer 5

They're Sailboats...they Sail...that is to say they move by and with the wind. As Square Riggers, they cannot sail close to the wind as various non square rigged Sailboats can.  A average of 40 degrees to 180 degrees from facing dead into the wind. In sailing terms they can only sail "Off the wind".

Often routes were planned to follow the push of "Trade Winds"...thus the phrase "they followed the Trades".

Hope this helps.

Answer 6

wind i guess!

Answer 7

They move with the wind only> Or they pull them with long boats & oars> when the wind died>Those boats in the movies have engines>Look close and you will see the exhaust>& prop wash>

Answer 8

Good old wind.

Answer 9

They are sailboats and the wind makes them move.  The force that the wind transfers to the sails actually makes a boat move forward for much the same reason a plane flies. If you were to look down on a sailboat from a helicopter you would see what looks like an airplane's wing, except standing on end.

Here are a couple of links that explain it very well.