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wind triangle A vector triangle, whose three sides are your boat speed, the apparent wind speed, and the true wind speed. Generally the first two sides and the angle between them (apparent wind angle) are known, and the triangle is solved, graphically or by computation, for the true wind speed and true wind direction.

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