Re:Sailing in space and sailing on the water... (Score 1)

Nope. The sailing craft is going to start with some orbital velocity around the sun. How much depends on the details of the orbit after launch. The craft can be expected to have the orbital velocity of the earth +/- whatever velocity is added by engines in the launch process.

The craft then will as a consequence move in an elliptical orbit of increasing aphelion. The problem of arranging things to arrive at a particular destination is a non-trivial astrogation problem.

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