A new era of wind power for shipping: Seawing’s first flight

Wow. Weird design. One might compare these “sails” to swatting a fly with a sledgehammer. Did you see the below-decks support structure? Looked like a missile silo. Can you say “heavy”? It looked like it was taking up cargo room too. I’d say use some guy wiires and masts - maybe a few sails - ya iknow… :slight_smile:

At 4:35 in this video, the guy says the reason the Magnus cylinders didn’t work out so great is they “created a lot of problems because of the spinning motion/
Geee, ya think?

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