"Running before the wind" is when your craft is sailing directly downwind, or "with the wind".
For greater speed caused by less drag in the water, you may raise your center- or dagger-board, as steerage is not critical. If you have a jibsail, you may set it out oppositethe mainsail to "run wing and wing". This is the slowest form of sailing the existing winds.
Care should be exercised in light wind conditions, as even the slightest swells will cause the mast to sway forward and back, possibly luffing your sails.
Running Before the Wind has 152 pages.
"Running Before the Wind" is a novel by Michael J. Daley that was first published in 2014.
The ISBN of Running Before the Wind is 0-395-42116-0.
Wind powered (i.e., sailing) vessels.
You may mean "By and Large" - meaning steering a course as far downwind as possible, keeping the sails full and the boat speed up. The answer above is completely wrong. One cannot sail both by and large at the same time since they mean opposite things. Sailing by the wind (i.e., sailing by) means sailing as close to the wind as possible. In other words, sailing into the wind. Sailing large means sailing before the wind. That is, sailing with the wind blowing from the aft quarter. So it is impossible to sail both by and large at the same time since that would require sailing in two opposite directions at once.
Cross sailing is sailing towards the wind.
Sailing down wind with the sails fully open or 'gull winged'.
sailing, wind power, wind chimes
Most larger sailing vessels have an auxiliary engine for maneuvering and berthing. But sailing is mainly accomplished with wind power
The best point of sailing is 45 degrees to the wind. If the wind was over the beam you would have to take a port or starboard tack to it.
windsurfing and sailing
a boat a sail and the wind