Honestly if they’ve improved the efficiency of sails then that’s great, but this marketting text is still silly enough to go here.
Honestly if they’ve improved the efficiency of sails then that’s great, but this marketting text is still silly enough to go here.
Self rigging has been around for years though, plenty of yachts have it.
i don’t think lateen yacht rigging is that transferrable to cargo, maybe someone’s trying to up-scale it that way too… but looking at old clippers it seems very challenging
Oh no I meant like square riggers with fully automatic sails. Got a tour on a brig with that stuff. They don’t allow the machine to trim the sails though, they’re afraud it’d break.
P-liners would probably be our best idea of what a modern cargo sail ship would be.
damn, that sounds cool. it might be more expensive or not automated enough wrt trimming (surely they could figure this out) & that’s why the op sort of thing are getting more hype
or the op type is gadgetbahn snakeoil and actual sail-powered cargo will eventually be mostly automatic clippers
It was very cool to see! Though also kinda sad, because the only reason they have made those advances in sail technology are because it allows them to cut down on labour costs. Like it’s all just done to make it so they have to pay less people money. There’s nothing better about the sails themselves, the ship is as fast as it ever was, it’s just more money for the owners.