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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==
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 Article from Erik Andrus in the building stage of the proiject in April 2013, 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 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
 +
 +==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===
 +
 +
 +==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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