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--- writing:nautical_solarpunk [2025/11/11 02:06] – JacobCoffinWrites
+++ writing:nautical_solarpunk [2025/12/04 14:58] (current) – [Other Wind-Based Propulsion Technologies:] JacobCoffinWrites
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 https://en.rochefortenterre-tourisme.bzh/offers/iliens-la-navette-qui-met-les-voiles-quiberon-en-4652240/
-**[[https://www.bairdmaritime.com/shipping/dry-cargo/vessel-review-grain-de-sail-ii-french-transport-companys-cargo-sailship-built-for-trans-atlantic-crossings||Grain de Sail II]]**, a 24-meter, metal-hulled clipper ship with a 350 ton capacity, transporting wines, raw coffee and cocao following the trade winds. It looks somewhat more traditional in the rigging to me. https://graindesail-overseas.com/grain-de-sail-ii
+**[[https://www.bairdmaritime.com/shipping/dry-cargo/vessel-review-grain-de-sail-ii-french-transport-companys-cargo-sailship-built-for-trans-atlantic-crossings|Grain de Sail II]]**, a 24-meter, metal-hulled clipper ship with a 350 ton capacity, transporting wines, raw coffee and cocao following the trade winds. It looks somewhat more traditional in the rigging to me. https://graindesail-overseas.com/grain-de-sail-ii
 **https://gosailcargo.com/ships.html** A list of designs for somewhat traditional (I think) sailboats designed to transport shipping containers, starting with a clipper and working down to small boats. I really appreciate the diagrams they provide with each ship description and feature list. I don’t think any of these have been built yet but they’re based on historical designs. I didn’t notice any mention of being able to lower the masts, but some other tall ships, like the USCG training vessel Eagle (a three-masted barque), have upper mast sections that can be lowered to squeeze under modern bridges so that might be an option.
-**[[https://www.hrmm.org/history-blog/sail-freighter-friday-sv-kwai-2006-present||The SV Kwai]]** for an example of a motor vessel retrofitted with fairly traditional sails. This allowed it to visit ports that weren’t considered profitable for motor vessels. A reuse-focused solarpunk society might make a lot of similar retrofits.
+**[[https://www.hrmm.org/history-blog/sail-freighter-friday-sv-kwai-2006-present|The SV Kwai]]** for an example of a motor vessel retrofitted with fairly traditional sails. This allowed it to visit ports that weren’t considered profitable for motor vessels. A reuse-focused solarpunk society might make a lot of similar retrofits.
-**[[https://www.sailcargo.inc/||Sailcargo]]** – a company operating a small fleet of wood-hulled schooners. They have a fair number of photos to use as references, including some clever solar panel placement.
+**[[https://www.sailcargo.inc/|Sailcargo]]** – a company operating a small fleet of wood-hulled schooners. They have a fair number of photos to use as references, including some clever solar panel placement.
+**[[https://apnews.com/article/hawaii-polynesian-canoe-hokulea-50th-anniversary-5bd2ce68d790c81a3af43a42bffcc980|The Hokulea]]** - a performance-accurate waʻa kaulua, a Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe launched in 1975, best known for its 1976 Hawaiʻi to Tahiti voyage completed with exclusively traditional navigation techniques. Its twin wood masts are rigged either crab claw or Marconi style with a small jib and it's steered with a long paddle. It has no auxiliary motor. There are concessions to modernity though - elements of its construction involve modern materials such as  plywood, fiberglass and resin and it operates with a motorized escort vessel which tows it into harbor when necessary.
 **[[https://fairtransport.eu/en/onze-vloot/tres-hombres/|Tres Hombres]]** – about as traditional-looking as it gets – an engineless, wood-hulled brigantine made in the 1940s transporting rum, cocoa, coffee and olive oil.
 **[[https://vega1892.com/historic-vessel-vega-about-the-boat/|Vega]]** – (a looks like either a galleass or a cutter?) built in 1892 and formerly used to transport limestone, bricks, pig iron and cement, it is still in use today, transporting free school and health supplies to remote islands in eastern Indonesia and to East Timor. More info here: https://www.hrmm.org/history-blog/sail-freighter-friday-galleass-vega-1892-present
 This is far from an exhaustive list, if you know of a cool ship or design I should include by all means let me know and I’ll add it!
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 Current kite rigs can be sailed within 50 degrees of the wind, meaning they tack to go upwind, like a ship with sails. Kites can be adjusted manually or by an automated system.
-==== Battery ships? ====
+=== Battery ships? ===
 Electric ships are looking much more practical than I would have expected – getting there seems to involve reexamining how we use ships, as well as adjusting to use battery tech that makes sense for ships (as opposed to cars) https://austinvernon.site/blog/batteryships.html
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 For river boats, there’s a very cool project trying to convert the fleet of diesel motor canoes used in the Ecuadorian Amazon to solar/battery driven electric systems: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/world/americas/electric-boats-ecuadorian-amazon.html (sorry I don’t have a guest link).
+The [[https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringPorn/comments/1pcawqb/blue_marlin_becomes_worlds_first_solarpowered/|Blue Marlin]] is a partially solar powered inland cargo vessel which is covered in solar panels which help with directly powering propulsion. However it appears to be relying mainly on diesel generators. I'm not sure if it qualifies as a battery ship but that seems to be the closest category at the moment.
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