Thought I'd add a bit to some of the ideas in my last post. While I'm very much a sailor, I view a sailboat primarily as useful for recreation and/or a mobile home. Prior to the 20th Century, sailboats provided the best transportation when a waterway was available. However, motorized vessels have eliminated [...]

There's a great article about Greenbird and wind energy at:

We should be having some more fun shortly. Hydroptere is scheduled to be sailing once again this coming week, but where is Wotrocket? (Any of you have any current info on Wotrocket?)

Walter discovered some more pictures that we can learn from; use the following addresses:

Take a look at Macquarie Innovation's website (updates). They have just posted a wrap-up of their record run. There is a good discussion of the events during that run, great photos and a graph of the wind speed. Be sure to follow the link at "ratification process" to read their letter to WSSRC about [...]

I'd like to thank Walter (Wiebel Sailing) for a tip about some videos on You Tube showing the model Monofoil sailing. Go to You Tube and enter "Monofoil" in the search box and take a look. While these videos were posted only a couple of months ago, I suspect they come from a few years back (their website [...]