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Default The New Age Of Sail

Interesting. The kite might work, if the lazy ships crew bother to
sail it. The boat with masts/sails looks like they would be too high.
Some ships barely get under some bridges now.

SV

"jlrogers±³©" wrote in message
om...
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/...mg18524881.600
'The coming of steam sent the world's great sailing fleets into

decline. The
internal combustion engine finally finished them off. So it would be

a
strange twist of fate if the age of sail was resurrected by what

amounts to
a child's toy.

'For several weeks last summer, a team of German engineers sailed

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