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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. 
 + 
 + 
 +=== Existing Projects ===
  
  
  Existing projects, with some notes.  Existing projects, with some notes.
 ==Avontuur== ==Avontuur==
 +German sail cargo project based in Elsfleth near Bremen. Started and run by Cornelius Boeckerman, Ben Decosse started volunteering and has been involved ever since. Several other long term volunteers.
 +Original plan was to sail to Australia and trade between Indonesia, PNG, Australia, New Zealand and other PAcific islands. This was still planned in Feb 2016, later that year they did their first trip to the Caribbean and back. 2017 Canada. 2018 off to Caribbean again.
 +
  
-Deutsche Unternehmen, geplante Reise route nach Australien, dann in Bereich Indonesien bis Neuzeeland. 
  
 Article from early 2015: http://www.kreiszeitung.de/lokales/niedersachsen/elsfleth-cornelius-bockermann-verschifft-bald-waren-prozent-emissionsfrei-4859197.html Article from early 2015: http://www.kreiszeitung.de/lokales/niedersachsen/elsfleth-cornelius-bockermann-verschifft-bald-waren-prozent-emissionsfrei-4859197.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+ 
  
 http://timbercoast.com/ http://timbercoast.com/
 +
 +==Salford==
 +
 +UK based coastal sail cargo. 1950s whelk boat. Small, local deliveries, crew come from a homeless shelter.
 +
 +http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2017-05-09/sailor-opens-trade-route-between-wells-and-norwich-using-just-sails-and-oars/
 +
 +Run by Coastal explorations.
 +http://coastalexplorationco.co.uk/
  
 ==Kwai== ==Kwai==
  
-Basiert in Hawaii, sudpazifik. Ist noch nicht ganz Windbetrieben.+Basiert in Hawaii, sudpazifik. Ist noch nicht ganz Windbetrieben. Maybe now. 
 +http://svkwai.com/
  
 ==Tres Hombres== ==Tres Hombres==
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 UK basiert, organische Getraenke zwischen Normandie / Bretagne und suedliches UK. Beer und Wein, Cider. UK basiert, organische Getraenke zwischen Normandie / Bretagne und suedliches UK. Beer und Wein, Cider.
-Men Who Sail+https://www.grayhoundluggersailing.co.uk/ 
 + 
 +== De Galant == 
 +Sailed November 2017 over the Atlantic to the Caribbean for TOWT. 
 + 
 +https://www.towt.eu/de_gallant/ 
 + 
 +==Gais Dream== 
 +Saw [[http://iniwijnen.com/|this]] in Sydney. A large [[http://www.pacificproa.nl/dream.htm|transport]] Proa, up to 9 tons. Exists, not sure as to what transport is happening. Has been on hold since 2013, gender reassignment. 
 + 
 + 
 +===Emerging Projects=== 
 +Here we mean ones that are doing things, but not at sea yet. 
 + 
 +==Schooner Ruth== 
 +Afloat in the Caribbean. According to the riggers, it has a great rig but has not gone any further. 
 +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 
 + 
 +==Brigantes== 
 +Based in Sicily, 1911 built rivetted steel hull. Started 2016. In Trapani, Sicily. Building spars in the Italian alps. Sister ship is Eye of the Wind and they are aiming at a very similar ship. 
 +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 
 + 
 + 
 +===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 
 + 
 + 
 +==VW sail== 
 + 
 +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) 
 + 
 +=== Ship Designs === 
 + 
 +There are more people putting together designs for cargo vessels to be built from the ground up. These are not projects as such, but designs that could be used by a project. 
 + 
 +== Stratagig Rant == 
 +Nice Rant at bottom of page bi Mirones: 
 + 
 +https://www.boatdesign.net/threads/clipper-cargo-cruise-sailing-boat.63735/page-2 
 + 
 +== HarryProa == 
 +Vanuatu oriented. 
 + 
 + 
 +http://harryproa.com/?p=2561 
 + 
 +early 2023 still just operating 
 + 
 +== Scruffie (Australia) == 
 + 
 +The design for a Sail Electric, two versions 64 and 100 feet. 
 +Steel hull, gaff ketch rig,  
 +The 100 foot version has space for 2 20 foot containers or a 40 foot, utilising the container standardisation. On board crane only does 1 tonne, so it will not be able to unload the containers itself. Bilge keels for tidal work, with dagger boards. 
 + 
 +http://www.gosailcargo.com/ 
 + 
 +== Tad Roberts cargo Schooner == 
 + 
 +52 and 60 foot schooners. Steel hull, V bottom 16 foot long cargo area, inspired by Grand Banks fishers. 
 + 
 +http://www.tadroberts.ca/services/new-design/sail/steelcargoschooner60 
 + 
 +==  Ville Matias Lindén == 
 + 
 +Finnish designer, completed a wooden design. 
 +Laminated frames for strangth, wooden hull for ease of repair, schooner, based on New England fishing boats for speed. Designed for the Pacific coast of middle and south America. 
 +17 meter length, 4.6m breadth. 
 + 
 +No public version of it, documented in his Master's Thesis, 2018. Lots of calculations and comparisons, good to read. 
 + 
 +== Seafret == 
 +A French project, looks very high tech and pricey. 2012 development, 2015 last update. 
 +http://seafretcaraibes.fr/ 
 + 
 + 
 +===Discontinued Projects=== 
 + 
 +==Pierius Magnus / Atlantis Project== 
 +Very small cargo freighter "skonker" (not sure if that is a real ship type), Dutch style, built 2001-2002 in USA, sailed to Europe. Basis of Tres hombres / Fair Transport. 
 +Boat abandoned in Cap Verde / Canaries. 
 +https://www.schoonerman.com/naval-history/pierius-magnus.html 
 + 
 +https://twitter.com/ecoclipper/status/1238887869370044420 
 + 
 +https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihRi7YPA4Ww 
 + 
 +https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HokdRGhqChQ 
 + 
 + 
 +==Men Who Sail==
  
 An Amsterdam based group who seem to charter one of the sailing vessels to do the deliveries ofr a bis music / arts festival in the islands off the Dutch coast. An Amsterdam based group who seem to charter one of the sailing vessels to do the deliveries ofr a bis music / arts festival in the islands off the Dutch coast.
 +http://www.menwhosail.nl/ seems defunct (2018)
  
 ==Undine== ==Undine==
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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.
 +No longer operating
  
 ==Vermon Freight Sail Project== ==Vermon Freight Sail Project==
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 Horribly ugly, but very simple to build. Probably cheap, maybe even possible without resorting to marine ply. Horribly ugly, but very simple to build. Probably cheap, maybe even possible without resorting to marine ply.
  
- 
-==Schooner Ruth== 
-Afloat in the Caribbean. According to the riggers, it has a great rig but has not gone any further. 
-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 
  
 ==John Leavitt== ==John Leavitt==
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-=== Meeting at NSRSail conference in Harlingen=== +==== Meetings, seminars, symposia ==== 
-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.+ 
 +=== SCA meetings in spring and autumn === 
 +The SCA, the Sail Cargo Alliance, is a loose network of sail cargo practitioners. All projects have taken part in some meetings, but there is a very loose structure. 
 + 
 +One of the issues that the SCA and all sail cargo groups are dealing with are the standards that they speak about, what emmisions they actually have and allow, how they claim that and document it. 
 + 
 +=== 2014 NSRSail conference in Harlingen=== 
 +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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 Norwegian pollution funding has led to cleaner shipping. Norwegian pollution funding has led to cleaner shipping.
  
 +==== Research Projects ====
 +There are a number of ongoing and completed research projects looking at clean transport and especially sail.
  
 +== Wallenius Marine +2 in Sweden ==
 +Wind assisted car carrier, three year development project starting in 2019.
 +
 +https://www.sjofartstidningen.se/wallenius-marine-develops-wind-powered-vessels/
 +
 +== SGSA Drax Ultrabulk ===
 +Drax are using biomass for power generation, replacing coal. Ultrabulk ships the biomass. Shipping is the highest emissions part of the production chain. Smart Green Shipping Alliance are researching a hard sail retrofit to Ultrabulk carriers to reduce costs and emissions. (Nov 2018)
 +
 +https://www.drax.com/press_release/smart-green-shipping-alliance-partners-drax-ultrabulk-cut-shipping-supply-chain-emissions/
 +
 +=== Low Carbon Shipping ===
 +
 +Analysis of shipping industry and models, tech changes and other. There is a longer report and an executive summary on the webpage. Only 1 paragraph about Wind Assisted stuff.
 +
 +http://www.lowcarbonshipping.co.uk/
  
 ===Sustainable Sea Transport=== ===Sustainable Sea Transport===
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 One suggested design, similar to the one above: [[http://seafretcaraibes.fr/|(in French)]] One suggested design, similar to the one above: [[http://seafretcaraibes.fr/|(in French)]]
  
-==Gais Dream== 
-Saw [[http://iniwijnen.com/|this]] in Sydney. A large [[http://www.pacificproa.nl/dream.htm|transport]] Proa, up to 9 tons. 
  
  
-=== 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....
  
  
-==Cape Farewell==+===Cape Farewell===
 David Buckland runs this in the UK. Artists and environmental considerations. Arts/Science collaborations. David Buckland runs this in the UK. Artists and environmental considerations. Arts/Science collaborations.
  
-==Windfinder==+===Windfinder===
  
 Wipke Iwersen has been sending out small, unmanned sailing vessels that sail into the wind, as his search for "the origin of the wind" since 2004. [[http://www.windvinder.com|Website]] Wipke Iwersen has been sending out small, unmanned sailing vessels that sail into the wind, as his search for "the origin of the wind" since 2004. [[http://www.windvinder.com|Website]]
  
-==Marin==+===Marin===
 While its acronym is relatively general, Media Art Research Interdisciplinary Network, there is a strong Makrolab taste about these projects. Journeys, data streams, autonomous sensor networks, etc. One sees close connections to ATOL's project in Slovenia and the Arctic Perspective Initiative as well. Ran 2009-2011, unsure about current status. While its acronym is relatively general, Media Art Research Interdisciplinary Network, there is a strong Makrolab taste about these projects. Journeys, data streams, autonomous sensor networks, etc. One sees close connections to ATOL's project in Slovenia and the Arctic Perspective Initiative as well. Ran 2009-2011, unsure about current status.
  
 Link: [[http://marin.cc/|Blog and Info]] Link: [[http://marin.cc/|Blog and Info]]
  
-==Meeting the Odysee==+===Meeting the Odysee===
  
 A 5 year EU Culture project, re-exploring the Odyssee in the context of the Baltic, The Ionian (I think, around Italy) and the Aegean. A 5 year EU Culture project, re-exploring the Odyssee in the context of the Baltic, The Ionian (I think, around Italy) and the Aegean.
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-==Island Mesh==+===Island Mesh===
 A voyage from Fiji to Rotuma should take place under the name of Island Mesh. Call will be made in Feb 2015. A voyage from Fiji to Rotuma should take place under the name of Island Mesh. Call will be made in Feb 2015.
 This is an ANAT / ADA Aotearoa Digital Arts) collaboration. This is an ANAT / ADA Aotearoa Digital Arts) collaboration.
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 This might be connectied to the Mesh Cities project about arts in transitional spaces. This might be connectied to the Mesh Cities project about arts in transitional spaces.
  
 +==== Press and other writing, talking, etc ====
 +A collection of articles, podcasts, television, etc.
 +
 +
 +=== 2023 ===
 +February
 +Financial Times Some Flettner rotors have already been retirned. IWSA says attitudes are changing. https://www.ft.com/content/50656582-8b42-47d9-9bcf-decb0f976dd3
 +
 +=== 2022 ===
 +
 +June: Rocket transporter Canopée hits the water. https://swzmaritime.nl/news/2022/06/28/sailing-freighter-canopee-for-ariane-6-rockets-hits-the-water/
 +February: Grain de Sail starts build of second boat, 50m long, 350 tonnes cargo capacity. First vessel will "retire" to coastal work.
 +https://splash247.com/france-debuts-another-sail-cargo-ship-design/
 +
 +Partially critical discussion: https://www.boatdesign.net/threads/sail-cargo.67049/
 +
 +
 +=== 2021 ===
 +September: There's Amazon Prime, then there's Shipping by Schooner. Apollonia, nice overview.  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/13/style/carbon-neutral-shipping-hudson-valley-new-york.html
 +
 +May: Low Tech magazine How to design a sailing ship for the 21st century. Critical analysis of the field. https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/05/how-to-design-a-sailing-ship-for-the-21st-century.html#more
 +
 +May: Schooner Appolonia Hudson River. https://www.grubstreet.com/2021/05/a-vintage-sailboat-ferries-groceries-from-hudson-to-brooklyn.html  and https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2021/05/24/sailing-vessel-horse-drawn-wagon-deliver-cargo-to-industrial-red-hook/
 +
 +Spring: Master's Thesis Steven Woods "Sail Freight Revival: Methods of Calculating Fleet, Labor and Cargo needs for supplying Cities by Sail"  https://drive.google.com/file/d/19WDQ0H-FhoBsKJSv0a6bWZZKWXEaX-CI/view
 +
 +===2020===
 +November: UNCTAD "Sail cargo: Charting a new path for emission-free shipping?"  https://unctad.org/news/sail-cargo-charting-new-path-emission-free-shipping
 +
 +July: Magazine ab FLOAT, article about Timbercoast. https://floatmagazin.de/dinge/avontuur-die-fuenfte-frachtsegler-in-hamburg/?all=1
 +
 +June: BBC Series "People fixing the world" https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cszv13
 +
 +Text and Photos, "In the Stillness Between Two Waves of the Sea" https://ocean-archive.org/collection/45
 +
 +The Maritime Executive "Back to the Future"   https://www.maritime-executive.com/editorials/back-to-the-future-wind-power-could-cut-shipping-s-co2-emissions
 +
 +April: Fresh Cup magazine. Coffee, transport. https://www.freshcup.com/trade-winds/
 +
 +Feb: The Engineer. Overview of existing techniques, Flettner rotors getting more solis evidence. https://www.theengineer.co.uk/wind-ships-marine-propulsion/
 +
 +March: Brand Eins Zurück in die Zukunft https://www.brandeins.de/magazine/brand-eins-wirtschaftsmagazin/2020/arbeiten/ecoclipper-zurueck-in-die-zukunft 
 +
 +===2019===
 +October: French sail assisted project tod eliver the Ariane rockets to South America. https://shipinsight.com/articles/french-yacht-designer-moves-into-commercial-wind-powered-shipping
 +
 +Guardian "Winds of change: the sailing ships cleaning up sea transport" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/23/sailing-ships-cleaning-up-sea-transport-oceans
 +
 +July: Lush importing cork products from Portugal with sail cargo. https://theecologist.org/2019/jul/09/lush-sails-lower-carbon-footprint
 +
 +Slate (Secret History of the Future)
 +A Second Wind: Could we go back to wind-powered ships—and eliminate commercial shipping’s carbon emissions—by rediscovering a clever nautical innovation that we abandoned a century ago? https://slate.com/technology/2019/07/could-we-go-back-to-wind-powered-ships.html
 +
 +Zotter importiert Cacoa: Brigantes und Timbercoast: https://kurier.at/chronik/welt/josef-zotters-kakao-import-mit-dem-segelfrachter/400544123
 +
 +March: 6 page article in Afloat in Australia. Ceiba and several other projects. https://afloat.partica.online/afloat-magazine/afloat-march-2019/flipbook/20/
 +
 +===2018===
 +November, Shipping Journal http://www.themeditelegraph.com/en/shipping/2018/11/13/new-impetus-boosts-global-trade-8CSxMYNll5RjHwRVNgZoBO/index.html
 +
 +August, German TV https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/die_nordstory/die-nordstory-Neue-Abenteuer-vom-Frachtsegler,sendung809082.html
 +
 +June, German newspaper http://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/menschen/warum-der-daenische-importeur-sune-rosforth-waren-per-segelboot-transportiert-15643817.html
 +May: The Conversation "Plain sailing: how traditional methods could deliver zero-emission shipping" https://theconversation.com/plain-sailing-how-traditional-methods-could-deliver-zero-emission-shipping-97180
 +
 +March: Float Magazine: https://floatmagazin.de/boote/fracht-unter-segeln/
 +
 +January German TV (5 min) https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/hallo_niedersachsen/Nachgefragt-3-Der-Frachtsegler-Avontuur,hallonds42238.html
 +
 +===2017===
 +
 +October Avontuur in Canada https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/avontuur-sustainable-cargo-shipping-1.4355715
 +
 +===2016===
 +
 +Feb https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/sailing-ships-back-in-vogue-as-a-green-alternative-to-conventional-shipping-a6858411.html
 +
 +Date unsure: German TV  (1 hour) https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/die_nordstory/Abenteuer-Frachtsegler,sendung490330.html
 +
 +
 +
 +===2015===
 +
 +October https://www.kleinezeitung.at/steiermark/suedostsued/4846212/Rum-aus-der-Karibik_Trotz-Schiffbruchs-voll-in-Fahrt
 +Septe,mber: Joe Butcher of El Lago coffee in Houston, Texas, planning to build a schooner. His last attempt ended in shipwreck (2007). https://www.coastmonthly.com/2015/09/sailing-dreams-and-coffee-beans/
 +
 +Juni 2015: http://www.nwzonline.de/wirtschaft/weser-ems/eine-idee-auf-grosser-fahrt-eine-idee-auf-grosser-fahrt_a_29,0,2981515498.html
 +
 +
 +=== 2013 ===
  
 +June  Slow Food? Depends on the Wind. Main Freight, Hudson River project. http://www.dirt-mag.com/special-spots/slow-food-depends-on-the-wind-KPDM20130628130629993
  
 +=== 2007 ===
 +Joe Butcher was trying to import coffee sirect from Belize, Mexico, to Houston, Texas, in his boat Red Cloud. This article ios from beforehand.
 +https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/baytown-news/article/El-Lago-sailboat-makes-coffee-imports-greener-1842490.php
 +The sad thing is that the ship ended up sinking en route. See article from 2015.
  
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