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No, because there's nothing like water for a keel to work against.

In water sailing there are two vectors, the force vector from the reaction of the wind against the sail, adds to the vector from the reaction of the keel (and rudder) against the water, in propelling the sailboat. This works for almost any direction on the compass except where the wind is coming from, or about 45 degrees either side of that. "Beating close to the wind" as @geoffc mentions, is traveling up against that limit. "Tacking" is zigzagging - going for a while 45 degrees clockwise from the wind, and then for a while 45 degrees counterclockwise. Working your way upwind.

In the solar wind there's just one force vector, because there's only one medium, the solar wind, as @Craig mentions. With one vector the direction limits become more than 90 degrees to either side of where the solar wind is coming from. So no zigging, no zagging, using anything like tacking.

Now maybe gravity can be used as another vector via orbital mechanics as @Pearson and @SF mention, but the physics are wholly different than a keel through water.

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