The ships rely on so - called Flettner rotors,
tall columns like enlarged smokestacks that jut up from the center of the ship and spin in the wind, driving the ship perpendicular to the air flow and also serving as the funnels from which the sea spray would emerge.
Not exact matches
From the book: «
Like something out of an epic fantasy novel, Scotland's Fingal's Cave is a 270 - foot - deep, 72 - foot -
tall sea cave with walls of perfectly hexagonal
columns.
Perched near the hot seams of some midocean ridges are curious pillars of lava,
like Greek
columns, many of them 45 feet
tall.
For me, I am very
tall (6» 0 ″) and thin and I find that long dresses make me look
like a giant
column, I also think that really tight sexy dressed look terrible because I don't have a curvy body.
At first all he can see are
tall windows high overhead, shafts of light
like columns.
It looks more
like a small church, with a central nave outlined by
tall white
columns on each side, and flanked by stained glass windows.