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It's not a test of the technology. This has been tried many times before. Perhaps most famously by the Cousteau Society, with their expedition ship 'Alcyone' bu

It's not a test of the technology. This has been tried many times before. Perhaps most famously by the Cousteau Society, with their expedition ship 'Alcyone' built in the mid 80's. It used two, and they called them Turbosails. I was fortunate enough to have been given a tour when I was a child and the ship visited Sydney. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbosail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbosail http://colaco.freeshell.org/downloads/alcyone/zoom_alcyone_canada.jpg http://colaco.freeshell.org/downloads/alcyone/zoom_alcyone_c... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcyone_(ship) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcyone_(ship)

matt_the_bass 8y ago
I have a crazy story about that ship. I transited on that vessel in March 2002 from the endeavor museum to a vip event on the other side of manhattan. The crew forgot to notify Port control and we were swiftly intercepted by the coast guard. They had guns drawn and nearly boarded us. The sails looked like missle silos and we were almost in sight of ground zero only a few months after 9/11. The situation was exacerbated by the French crew monitoring international channel 16 not US channel 16. So they never responded to the USCG hailing them.