Comment on A cargo ship with 123-foot ‘WindWing’ sails has just departed on its maiden voyage

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Tar_alcaran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Traditional sails are also fragile, complex, expensive and very labour intensive even with electric winches. A fully rigged ship is exceptionally complicated and knowing how to work one takes huge skill and knowledge, and that’s not even mentioning what to do when something goes wrong. And of course, it’s much slower as well.

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