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
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A sailboat without a sail is but a hull of itself.
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.
Um.........you just said the answer. its called a sail
It is called the lateen sail.
It is a part of the sail.
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Collects wind, it is a triangular sail placed at the front of the sailboat.