sails of the British yachts and shaped on the lines of a pilot boat.
like sail west, they need Columbus needed and a philanthropist needed a business plan, you know, how they need to buy and provision the ships and recruit a crew, but then you
Schooner sails are bigger than other sails .
In the age of sail , going around the world would have required weeks-- I'm sorry months, if not years-- so my sailing vessel would
So they set sail , they launched the ship, they sail out.
She had set sail from New York's East River in June and was manned throughout her Atlantic crossing by Captain WH Brown and a crew of 12 men.
So the wing sail that reached 230 feet, the largest wing ever built for air or for sea was largely--
That ship kind of sails itself.
And the steel sails just effortlessly accumulated greater speed.
better to entrust my sails to the wayward sea."
case--solar sails and space junk. So, solar sails were widely promulgated, utopian promise
Carl Sagan talked romantically about a solar sail mission to catch up with Comet Holley.
we look at the age of sail as a parallel.
But to get to the solar sail issue is that it's really a kind of cool concept.
And you've got wings on the sail boat, except that the wings, instead of being horizontal, are being vertical.
When can I expect a winged sail on my 35 foot keel boat?
beliefs that I try and set my sail toward and that enrich my soul.
It's like a raft with sails .
Things like how could I make the "Age Of Sail " even more awesome?
They somehow patch them together and they finally set sail in late August in open water when they encounter a massive gale, practically a hurricane.
a year and a couple months ago--the first solar sail was launched by Japan.
But he put them in the air as sails , and they caught the breeze.
Here we commissioned some artists to paint giant backdrops on sails .
The black clouds I'm hanging This anchor I'm dragging Sails of memory rip open in silence
and i've lost my leg climbing up the top sails i lost my leg i am shipping up to boston woah
So we have this kind of 10-foot eye painted on a sail to help us tell the story of the Cyclops.
It cramps my sail badly.
Yeah, with their little ears which are their sails , supposedly drifting along.
And the man who comes to be the captain of the ship that sails on this terrible journey is actually a doctor.
She's the only boat in the SF Maritime Fleet that actually still sails .
lighthouses and canals and lock Gates and the use of the compass and designs of sails and Rudders and anchors
On July 8, 1879, the USS Jeanette set sail from San Francisco.
It was reasonable for them to be fearful given the dangers of an around the world voyage in the age of sail .
The people, legislatures, let them set sail towards immortality, treating them like they're the '10 commandments or something,
OK, so I said one letter for the first half of his life before he set sail .
But there was a concept about 20 years ago that said, let's use a solar sail , just using the pressure from photons.
Larry had been told to get to San Diego as soon as possible so he could see the wing sail .
He has collaborated with renowned partners such as Herman Miller, we are sitting in his sail chairs.
For me the process which you can see online, the process we use to develop the sail chair here is the same kind of process we're using to develop a digital product or a very technologically
He says, you have to take the wind out of their sails .
Steve was interested in materials and the innovations, whether the Mylar used on the sails , or the grade of carbon fiber in the hulls.
War leftover launch hardware, they had launch failures and the solar sails were destroyed on launch.
that actually originated in Britain, that if we can get solar sails up, we can use them to attack the problem of space junk and attach to--. Like, use the little solar sails .
grams, hundreds of grams, maybe, a solar sail can actually get you at high speeds if you go close to the sun, so like a tenth of the 10 million kilometers from the
The Planetary Society has tried to launch solar sail spacecraft.
And in this case, the strategy was sail west.
They had very often taken parallels overland routes and here the idea was sail west.
But an overall strategy like sail west needs to be implemented, right?
Things changed for me on day three, where, I think, the first boat he comes across, I think it has sails .
of innovation on the water was a 95-foot, black, gaff-rigged schooner with a concave bow, low free board, and cotton sails , said to hold their shape better than the flax