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Default How many beers before jaxie starts to make sense?



JAXAshby wrote:
oh? and just when was sail powered commercial shipping considered to be kaput
as a cost effective transport mechanism?


Depends on where you are in the world. In some areas they are still
making money. In WW2, there were still a number of them sailing. WW2 was
probably the final straw.

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