Posted on 11/18/2020 12:51:56 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
With the hull and sail design based on a trading schooner built in the Åland Islands, Finland, in 1906, from the horizon Ceiba will have the appearance of a classic turn-of-the-century vessel, when the last commercial sail-powered ships were made. “They represented the peak of working sail technology, before fossil fuel came in and cut them off at the ankles,”
...Ceiba is small for a cargo ship – tiny in fact. She will carry around nine standard shipping containers. The largest conventional container ships today carry more than 20,000 containers.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
This is just the beginning. Our new Green Navy will do away with steel hulls, with wooden, sail-driven aircraft carriers and wooden submarines. I guess the crew would have to use pedal power to drive the propeller. I’m sure our adversaries will go easy on us, seeing as we’re trying to save the planet and all.
I’m also a big fan of it for recreation. The idea that I could go anywhere on just the wind is what drew me to it. Cargo shipping... not so much.
No need for bankruptcy. It’s a hippie operation. Some hippies will use it to live on.
Companies do not like their product sitting in warehouses or slooow ships. Time is money. Containers are rented.
The blacks are the cargo doncha know /sarc/.
As the Costa Rican venue suggests, they may intend on Third World pay scales to make such ships profitable.
“The large ships make the cost per ton almost nothing. Cost per ton on a nine container ship must be astronomical. But hey, climate change and all”
I think it is called “The Square Cube Law” If you you double the size of a ship the water resistances squares but the volume cubes, so big ships are inherently more efficient than two ship with 1/2 the size.
She was in service between 1962 and 1972 as one of only four nuclear-powered cargo ships ever built.
And therein lies the problem.
You have to love the BBC. Did anyone catch this at the bottom of the article?
“”The emissions from travel it took to report this story were 46kg CO2. The digital emissions from this story are an estimated 1.2g to 3.6g CO2 per page view. Find out more about how we calculated this figure here.””
With that being said, more power to these people. Their dime and their time.
It’s foolish to build ships of wood. Even sailing ships.
The same ship could be built of steel for 1/2 the money and 1/4 the time. They would be safer and require less maintenance.
And could be much larger.
“Sailing is relatively cheap as fuel goes, but you’re at the whim of the wind.”
It appears that the age of reason and logic has passed./
It’s possible to tack upwind, but it’s not fast. Despite training to do it, I’ve never left a harbor or port under wind power alone.
OMG! They are killing trees to make a cargo ship. That is so futuristic.
A few days ago, conservative talk show host John Batchelor interviewed the author of Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship:
https://www.amazon.com/Barons-Sea-Worlds-Fastest-Clipper-ebook/dp/B075RNR7T9/
I was surprised to hear that the fastest of those ships held speed records that lasted well into the 20th century.
For example, the clipper ship "Flying Cloud" set a record time for sailing from New York to San Francisco: 89 days 8 hours. That record held from 1854 to 1989.
“That record held from 1854 to 1989.”
WOW!!!
Slightly connected, but an excellent read about an amazing man and his thirty year quest to win a boat race:
A Full Cup: Sir Thomas Lipton’s Extraordinary Life and His Quest for the America’s Cup
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=9781101188750&i=stripbooks&linkCode=qs
” It’s a hippie commune”
Yes!
And someone pouring money in for what reason?
It's a futuristic as a biplane passenger plane... 😀
I’m a sailor. Own a 40 ft fiberglass sailboat. Would never buy a wooden boat. Too much maintenance and we have termites in our marina. I don’t even have wooden steps leading up to the boat because of them.
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