The wind makes the sailboat go.

This weekend in New Orleans we discussed the 16 year old girl trying to sail around the world and moved on to my lack of sailing skills.  In a nutshell, I wasn't bad at sailing the Sunfish with the wind--I could always leave the shore, but returning from whence I came was seldom accomplished.  Most of the time, Dad had to rescue me with the powerboat.  Dad gave me a simple book about sailing and the book began with a question/answer--Q "What makes the sailboat go?"/  A "The wind makes the sailboat go."  We've been reminiscing about that since I was a teenager.  When I read Wordsmith's word-of-the-day, aeolian, I smiled.  Aeolian means "relating to or caused by the wind." The word's origin is from "Aeolus, god of the winds in Greek mythology.  As keeper of the winds, he gave a bag containing winds to help with Odysseus's sailing."  according to Wordsmith.  It turns out I'm in good company.