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This nautical wall covering, which features line drawings of sailing ships (done by an 8 - year - old, no less!)

Modern sailing ships can benefit from technology that didn't exist one and a half centuries ago.

Steam power and diesel engines relegated cargo sailing ships to the history books, since motorized ships are a lot faster, cheaper and more reliable.

A scientist at the University of Edinburgh has devised a new weapon in the fight against global warming: a fleet of 1,500 unmanned sailing ships creating wakes that whiten clouds to reflect the heat of the Sun better.

Posted on April 13, 2009 at 09:36 PM in Cover story, Ecotech, History, Sailing ships, Ships, Transport, Wind energy Permalink Comments (13)

But the trio would also like to offer the shipping world a fleet of high - tech sailing ships that can carry dozens of industrial containers while being navigated by a slim crew, and reducing container ship pollution - in other words, be economically and environmentally sustainable.

See also Of wind turbines and sailing ships.

The turbines are the land - bound equivalents of the old sailing ships, graceful, quiet, impressive in their power.

Posted on April 12, 2009 at 04:43 AM in Cover story, History, Sailing ships, Ships, Speed, Transport, Wind energy, Zero emissions Permalink Comments (22)

I wouldn't mind so much if Greenpeace rode bicycles to their sailing ships and rowed their little boats into the rigs to hang organic cotton banners.

In the turn of the nineteenth to twentieth centuries, when sailing ships had been able to sail through the Northwest Passage.

For sailing ships the problem is the same, a lack of horizontal wind, so they were becalmed.

By the 1500s, Christopher Columbus had figured out that the combination of trade winds and westerlies enabled a round - trip route for sailing ships crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

Because our legs are stronger than our arms, pedal powered «grinding» allows for quicker tacking and gybing in a race, but it could also be useful to reduce the required manpower for commercial sailing ships.

In the northern hemisphere these near surface winds appear to flow from the northeast, and because they were important in the age of sailing ships (think Columbus), they were called the Northeast Trades.

You deciding to rename the development of sailing ships «green energy» doesn't suddenly lead to a new interpretation of history.

Sailing ships followed the wind.

Sailing ships have always made use of them.

Sailing ships heading to North America from Europe went south past the doldrums to pick up the trades, but returned on a more northern path using the westerlies.

In 1735 George Hadley used the wind patterns, recorded by English sailing ships, to create the first 3D diagram of circulation.

It eventually grew to employ hundreds of workers manufacturing America's first steam engines, water wheels, pipes for New York City's water system, ironclad sailing ships, and stoves and ovens.

Over the past millennium this graph, most of which is obtained from Antarctic ice cores, shows CO2 holding steady at 280 ± 5 ppm up to 1800, when global population was about a billion people and sailing ships and the horse - and - buggy were the most advanced forms of transportation, consuming relatively little energy per capita compared with today.

No cars, no planes, just sailing ships, no coal plants.

His pictures of sailing ships and the roiling sea echoing the sensibility of famed naturalist John Muir.

Sheehy frequently returns to vernacular subjects that may appear folksy — donkeys, sailing ships, closely terraced houses, and chimney sweeps — but when repeated across numerous works they become talismanic.

In previous centuries, sailing ships carried conquistadors, colonists, migrants and slaves around Europe and the Americas.

Spanning the period between 1828 to 1945, the exhibition opens with the earliest form of American maritime painting — the grand academic - style portraits of graceful sailing ships — and includes waterscapes from the sea to the lakes and rivers of the American heartland, light - flooded impressionist visions of quaint New England seaside towns, and modernist renderings of industrial waterfronts and everyday life on the water

We visited him in his south London studio, where we chatted to the artist about sailing ships, road signs and new music.

I welcome commissions for sailing ships and other working boats

The time period is perfectly captured from the outfits, and dress of the day, to even the modes of transport such as sailing ships to the horse and carriages that carry people on land.

Stormy winter seas claimed over 100 large sailing ships and countless lives in the 1800s.

This private villa overlooks Drake's Passage, where one can see a vast range of the world's boats - from small sailing ships to large mega-yachts, perhaps even a pirate ship, pass by.

Most of the early sailing ships took the Great Circle Route south of Cape Town before heading north - east through the Southern Ocean towards Bass Strait.

The oldest Anglican Cathedral Church in Central America, St. John's Cathedral, was built in 1812 from bricks brought as ballast from European sailing ships.

With a design similar to the trading schooners that worked the Grand Banks of the North Atlantic for over 200 years, these classic schooners, handled by small crews, formed the hub of the trading industry and were the basis for a thousand books written on small sailing ships.

A sweeping view of the sparkling blue sea, neighboring islands, sailing ships and fantastic sunsets.

Styled after the Tahitian cottages on the Polynesian island of Bora Bora, the cabanas are built from native materials by craftsmen utilizing the same skill and techniques the islanders used in the days of the great sailing ships.

Other Belize City points of interest: the Swing Bridge, Supreme Court Building, Government House of Culture and St. John's Anglican Church, constructed in 1812 from bricks brought as ballast from European Sailing ships.

Star Flyer is a modern cruise ship in every way, created for luxury - loving singles who also love the traditions and romance of the legendary era of sailing ships.

Alan Villiers, a modern - day expert in traditional sailing ships, wrote many books about traditional sailing, including By way of Cape Horn.

Tall ship cruise specialist Star Clippers has announced new ports, new destinations and new itineraries for 2014 on board the line's three head - turning sailing ships, Star Clipper, Star Flyer and Royal Clipper, including a maiden season in Cuba, a sailing taking in the Monaco Grand Prix, new sailings from Mallorca and new port calls in Porto, Formentera and Corsica.

This Swedish yachtsman and entrepreneur has succeeded in making sailing ships commercially viable again, 100 years after their original demise, recreating the «Golden Age of Sail».

Styled after the Tahitian cottages on the Polynesian island of Bora Bora, our cabanas are built from native materials by craftsmen utilizing the same skill and techniques the islanders used in the days of the great sailing ships.

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Morning and afternoon tea is provided on the luxury sailing ships on the day cruise and on the dinner cruise barbeque kebabs and satay skewers are included.

The strongest influence over the Azores is probably from the original Portuguese settlers, colonists that brought sailing ships from the south of continental Portugal to populate the Azores islands, starting with Santa Maria in 1439.

These two - masted sailing ships were used by the skilled Bugis seafarers who, for centuries, plied the waters off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, trading in spices, gold and sandalwood.

Past projects have included maintaining trails, growing plants at our native plant nurseries, creating habitat for endangered species, restoring historic sailing ships, and building fences to protect sensitive park sites.

The Copper and Lumber Store Historic Inn was built in 1789 to house the materials for repairing and maintaining the wooden sailing ships of the Royal Navy.

Compared to other cities in Finland, Mariehamn offers tranquillity to tourists who visit, and it was once the home of the world's largest oceanic sailing ships fleet and also called as «port of the last windjammers.»