World’s largest sailing cargo ship makes first transatlantic voyage
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2445620-worlds-largest-sailing-cargo-ship-makes-first-transatlantic-voyage/
World’s largest sailing cargo ship makes first transatlantic voyage
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2445620-worlds-largest-sailing-cargo-ship-makes-first-transatlantic-voyage/
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The world’s largest sailing cargo ship is making its maiden transatlantic voyage. The 265-foot Anemos set off from France early this month and is on track to deliver 1,100 tons of cognac and champagne to New York on 3 Sept.
Its cloth sails and rigging are automatically deployed and handled — no jolly jack tars in the rigging — and can manage 11 mph on wind power while producing a tenth the carbon of an equivalent diesel ship.
Satellite weather monitoring allows it to find the best winds more easily than its forebears did.
Very nice to see. But I wonder why they don’t use **Flettner Rotors** for this purpose – they are a known and well developed technology and superior in every way for this purpose. Less maintenance, fully automatized, less deckspace used, more efficent and perhaps even cheaper to install. There really is no point in traditional sails for commercial shipping in current times anymore, other than PR purpose.
how exactly is this the ‘worlds largest sailing cargo ship’
wyoming was wider than this ship is long, and nearly twice is length
or is it just the largest currently existing sailing cargo ship?