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 A collection of notes about wind assisted / Fair transport.Some vague possibility of this as a connection between older knowledges and newer ones, that could help us deal with coming changes.
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  Existing projects, with some notes.
 ==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
-Juni 2015: http://www.nwzonline.de/wirtschaft/weser-ems/eine-idee-auf-grosser-fahrt-eine-idee-auf-grosser-fahrt_a_29,0,2981515498.html
-first voyage across and around the Atlantic, returning to Germany May 2017.
 http://timbercoast.com/
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 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.
+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.
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 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) ==
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 ===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
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 ==== 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 ===
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 This might be connectied to the Mesh Cities project about arts in transitional spaces.
-==== Press ====
+==== Press and other writing, talking, etc ====
-A collection of articles.
+A collection of articles, podcasts, television, etc.
+=== 2024 ===
+Looking at the two TOWT and teh Grain de Sail II as new, effecient sail cargo vessels.
+https://floatmagazin.de/leute/so-geht-modernes-frachtsegeln-transoceanic-wind-transport/
+=== 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===
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 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.