You’d better learn your port from your starboard if you fancy a bit of solar sailing. All you need is a spacecraft with a large, lightweight mirror attached to it that moves by being pushed by light reflecting off the mirror (instead of rocket power). The light to push the sail can come from the sun or large man built lasers.

   Source: www.cosmographica.com

How can light ‘push’?
It can exert a force because it’s an electromagnetic wave. When light hits an object and is absorbed or reflected, the light wave pushes on the electric charges of the object, which in turn pushes on the rest of the object. If the light is reflected, the object gets pushed twice as hard.

Since space has solar winds, wouldn’t it be more logical to use?
Earth is wrapped in a thick layer of gas that is felt as wind whenever it moves. In space there is no air to move around. The solar wind is an extremely tenuous flow of particles ejected by the sun which exert very little force on anything it hits. It has 1000 – 10 000 times less force on solar sail than sunlight.