Velocity made good, or VMG, is a term used in sailing, especially in yacht racing, indicating the speed of a sailboat towards (or from) the direction of...

Displacement sailboats exhibit a change in what course has the best velocity made good (VMG), depending on windspeed. For the example given, the sailboat...

2010 America's Cup races, it can be seen that she could achieve a velocity made good upwind of over twice the wind speed and downwind of over 2.5 times...

(GS) in aircraft) and rate of progress towards a distant point ("velocity made good", VMG) are also given in knots. Until the mid-19th century, vessel...

her velocity made good was about 13.2 knots (24.4 km/h; 15.2 mph), or about 1.8 times wind speed. The course was a triangle, so the velocity made good downwind...

However, a variety of sailing craft can achieve a higher downwind velocity made good by traveling on a series of broad reaches, punctuated by jibes in...

wind. However, higher-performance sailing craft achieve a higher velocity made good downwind, by sailing on whatever broad reach is most efficient on...

at its own speed, called the phase velocity, while the energy of the disturbance propagates at the group velocity. The same phenomenon occurs with light...

wind, a land-sailing craft can sail much faster than the wind. The velocity made good downwind is often over twice as fast compared to the same craft sailing...

such as true wind speed, true wind direction, course over ground, velocity made good (VMG), time and distance to next waypoint, and much more. This data...