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* Studdingsails, great big extensions that make the sails of a ship almost twice as wide as normal, never make an appearance, despite their being a key feature for speed and maneuverability in naval battles.
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* The ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' trilogy is a major offender, with extensive yelling about naval maneuvers, which never accomplish anything, as all the ships continually sail in any direction in every weather with main and topsails square to the masts at all times. Bonus points for Captain Jack Sparrow yelling for adjustments to pieces of rigging his ship does not even possess: "Scandalize the lateens!" Note that the torn and tattered sails of the Pearl and the Dutchman do not qualify, as they are both supernatural vessels.
* Partial aversion: ''[[Master and Commander The Far Side of The World]]'' manages to avoid most of the list except for hiding the fact that the ship is actually motoring in a few shots, as indicated by the sails being pushed backwards against the mast by the wind, while the ship continues forward.
* ''[[Waterworld]]'' manages to multiply the sins, by having a fore-and-aft rigged Trimaran that is powered by wind so reliable the main character felt it wise to build a giant wind turbine on his mast. Lord only knows what would happen if the wind ever went slack and the sail slumped back into the turbine.
* Some players of ''[[Pirates Of The Spanish Main]]'' build their models with the flag (properly called pennant) flowing backwards (although that would indicate that the ship is sailing directly into the wind) because they find it [[Coconut Effect|looks funny]] the other way around.
* Invoked in ''[[Munchkin (
* There was an illustration in a Robert Lawson book which pictured a 3-masted ship, all the sails full of wind, with flapping flags facing the wrong direction (i.e, flags were pointing to the stern). The flags and the sails are affected by the same wind, and so the flags should be pointing more or less toward the bow.
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* ''[[The Hunting of the Snark]]'' had fun with this - see "[https://web.archive.org/web/20140302033354/http://www.literature.org/authors/carroll-lewis/the-hunting-of-the-snark/chapter-02.html Fit the Second]".
* The 1997 French cartoon "Barbe-Rouge" averts this one very carefully.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
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