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'Vindskip' cargo ship uses its hull as a giant sail
cnn ^ | Peter Shadbolt,

Posted on 01/22/2015 8:33:52 AM PST by BenLurkin

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To: zeugma

bump


21 posted on 01/22/2015 1:18:22 PM PST by GeronL
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To: Mat_Helm
what are you, sane or something?? Where would they get grants and media attention from that?
22 posted on 01/22/2015 1:19:20 PM PST by GeronL
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To: Conan the Librarian

nice boat

no relation to Toshiba?


23 posted on 01/22/2015 1:24:42 PM PST by GeronL
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To: GeronL

The name seems to be a contraction of Ta Shing (the manufacturer) and Baba (the name of a very popular boat they built in the past).

Toshiba is Japanese
Tashiba is Taiwanese

Either way, we hope to sail her to both places one day.


24 posted on 01/22/2015 2:44:17 PM PST by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: Perseverando

That picture shows the hull/sail “set” on one course. It will help if the wind is in one direction and hurt otherwise. They won’t build it and lose interior volume.


25 posted on 01/22/2015 3:24:43 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Conan the Librarian

don’t leave out Korea


26 posted on 01/22/2015 3:32:35 PM PST by GeronL
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