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 ==Vermon Freight Sail Project== ==Vermon Freight Sail Project==
 They built a ship in 2012 for the cost of 20,000 USD. This did shipping up and down the Vermont River in 2012-14. It was planning an expansion, but did not find backers. The Vermont project closed in July 2015: https://vermontsailfreightproject.wordpress.com/about/ They built a ship in 2012 for the cost of 20,000 USD. This did shipping up and down the Vermont River in 2012-14. It was planning an expansion, but did not find backers. The Vermont project closed in July 2015: https://vermontsailfreightproject.wordpress.com/about/
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 +Some links to articles: http://www.willowell.org/programs/sail/
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 ==Schooner Ruth== ==Schooner Ruth==
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 http://www.schoonerruth.com/ http://www.schoonerruth.com/
 She has sailed at least one in February 2015: http://www.topsailrigging.com/blog/mount-ray-regatta-first-sail-on-ruth She has sailed at least one in February 2015: http://www.topsailrigging.com/blog/mount-ray-regatta-first-sail-on-ruth
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 +==John Leavitt==
 +90 tonne sailing cargo vessel built by Ned Ackermann and a group in Maine in 1979 in response to oil embargo and massive increases in oil prices. Self overesimation, they left into a strom, fully laden and foundered. The crew was rescued, the vessel a write off, and the pall still hangs over the whole sail cargo scene.
 +http://www.nytimes.com/1982/07/18/nyregion/a-dream-that-foundered.html
 +The film is called Coaster, but does not seem to be available online.
  
  
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