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-==== Wind assisted ====+===== Wind assisted =====
  
  
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-=== Projects ===+==== Projects ==== 
 +Most important, the projects that exist and are in planning, the ones that failed. 
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 +=== Existing Projects ===
  
  
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 Juni 2015: http://www.nwzonline.de/wirtschaft/weser-ems/eine-idee-auf-grosser-fahrt-eine-idee-auf-grosser-fahrt_a_29,0,2981515498.html Juni 2015: http://www.nwzonline.de/wirtschaft/weser-ems/eine-idee-auf-grosser-fahrt-eine-idee-auf-grosser-fahrt_a_29,0,2981515498.html
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 +2016 first voyage across and around the Atlantic, returning to Germany May 2017.
  
 http://timbercoast.com/ http://timbercoast.com/
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 +==Salford==
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 +UK based coastal sail cargo. 1950s whelk boat. Small, local deliveries, crew come from a homeless shelter.
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 +http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2017-05-09/sailor-opens-trade-route-between-wells-and-norwich-using-just-sails-and-oars/
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 +Run by Coastal explorations.
 +http://coastalexplorationco.co.uk/
  
 ==Kwai== ==Kwai==
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 Nimmt 3 LKW Ladungen, die per Faehre 500 Euro kostet. Also es lohnt sich.  Nimmt 3 LKW Ladungen, die per Faehre 500 Euro kostet. Also es lohnt sich. 
 +Since early 2016 in receivership.
  
 ==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 materia cost of 20,000 USD, volunteer labour. This did shipping up and down the Vermont River in 2013-14. It was planning an expansion, but did not find backers. The Vermont project closed in July 2015: https://vermontsailfreightproject.wordpress.com/about/
  
 Some links to articles: http://www.willowell.org/programs/sail/ Some links to articles: http://www.willowell.org/programs/sail/
 +Article from Erik Andrus in the building stage of the proiject in April 2013,
 +Longer article from end of 2013, after the maiden voyage: http://archive.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20131124/GREEN01/311240006/Vermont-Sail-Freight-Project-highlights-old-shipping-methods-along-Lake-Champlain
 +The vessel was based upon the simple Triliboats designs: http://www.triloboats.com/order.html#cargo
 +Horribly ugly, but very simple to build. Probably cheap, maybe even possible without resorting to marine ply.
  
 +===Emerging Projects===
 +Here we mean ones that are doing things, but not at sea yet.
  
 ==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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 +==Brigantes==
 +Based in Sicily, 1911 built rivetted steel hull. Started 2016. In Trapani, Sicily.
 +http://www.brigantes.eu/
 +https://www.facebook.com/sail.powered.shipping
 +http://www.barchedepocaeclassiche.it/marineria/velieri/434-brigantes,-il-primo-veliero-cargo-ecosostenibile.html
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 +===Planned Projects===
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 +
 +==Celtic Trader==
 +"Stefan  Proszynski from Llanycefn is spending much of his 
 +spare time working on a long held dream of restoring 
 +Wales maritime culture by returning to the tradition of  
 +trading by sail boat along our coast" June 2014 http://www.foepembrokeshire.co.uk/newsletters/June_2014_newsletter.pdf
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 +
 +==VW sail==
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 +According to an [[http://www.spiegel.de/auto/aktuell/volkswagen-will-umweltprobleme-mit-erstem-segelfrachter-der-welt-umschiffen-a-1088281.html|article]] in the Spiegel, VW are trying to lower pollution loads on car deliveries. Run by the [[http://www.sailing-cargo.de/|Sailing Cargo]] group (yet another name)
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 +===Discontinued Projects===
  
 ==John Leavitt== ==John Leavitt==
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-=== Meeting at NSRSail conference in Harlingen=== +==== Meeting at NSRSail conference in Harlingen==== 
-The meeting is interim and tried to outline the currents tate of the project. Parallel to it, a stakeholders meeting was being held on the ship "Stad Amsterdam" which a few of us talked ourselves into.+The meeting is interim and tried to outline the current state of the project. Parallel to it, a stakeholders meeting was being held on the ship "Stad Amsterdam" which a few of us talked ourselves into.
  
 The main project for NSRsail is the Ecoliner, a sail assisted container transport vessel. The main project for NSRsail is the Ecoliner, a sail assisted container transport vessel.
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-===Sustainable Sea Transport===+====Sustainable Sea Transport====
  
 Peter Nuttall at University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji. Have run several conferences. Peter Nuttall at University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji. Have run several conferences.
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-=== Water / Sail and Arts Network ===+==== Water / Sail and Arts Network ====
  
 As a result of meeting Madadh MacLaine at NSRsail, a conversation with various people and organisations has arisen. Let us try and keep track of them here. They of course begin to interconnect with other conversations.... As a result of meeting Madadh MacLaine at NSRsail, a conversation with various people and organisations has arisen. Let us try and keep track of them here. They of course begin to interconnect with other conversations....
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