Canoe Boat Plans
I was in Cambridgeshire last weekend and I strayed into Lincolnshire by the River Nene where I saw wind turbines in action generating electricity – just about, as there was hardly any wind! I also crossed the border into Norfolk where I saw Bircham Windmill, but unfortunately it was closed to the public. Both structures harness energy from the wind, and according to Wikipedia, wind sails have been in use for this purpose for two millennia.* It is not therefore beyond the wit of man to have invented a wind-powered sailboat employing a propeller for moving his vessel; indeed, it has been done. I don’t know of the first recorded example, but there are several verifiable modern sailboats driven by propellers. Peter Worsley’s is one such boat: http://www.sailwings.net/images/evestandhires.jpg and see http://www.sailwings.net/shrouded.html .
Dip into some of the websites in the Links section below for other examples, particularly the YouTube videos.
Links
Windmill Sailboat: Sailing Against the Wind
http://www.treehugger.com/renewable-energy/windmill-sailboat-sailing-against-the-wind.html
Design puts boat into a spin
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1507825.stm
Windmill Ship
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windmill_ship
Revelation 11: Windmill Powered Boat – Open Knowledge
http://crasch.livejournal.com/676191.html
R/C Boat with Windmill Drive
https://www.youtube.com/v/OlqLHRE8ReQ
Unusual Catamaran with Wind Turbine Propulsion in Guernsey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzGCYaJbf0A
Experimental Wind Turbine Boat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKqC5JsurOk
Model Windmill powered Boat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iygLgI25WOg
Direct into the wind sailing craft model (plans)
http://www.sailwings.net/windspinner.html
Directly into the wind test model
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw4F3Lk11As
Experimental Rotary Sailing Craft
https://vimeo.com/85944832
Rotary Sailing Homepage
http://www.sailwings.net/rotaryhome.html
Windmill or Wind Turbine Forum
http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/projects-proposals/windmill-wind-turbine-powered-boats-how-many-out-there-they-viable-14182.html
Sailing faster than the wind
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_faster_than_the_wind
Wind Turbine Boat
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Wind-turbine_20boat
Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Vector Diagrams
http://club.cycom.co.uk/vertAxis.html
Vertical Axis Involute Spiral Wind Turbine
http://club.cycom.co.uk/vertAxis.html
Windmill Ship Blog
http://windmilship.blogspot.co.uk/
Windmill Sailboat
http://www.digplanet.com/wiki/Windmill_ship
Autogiro Boats History 1870 1933
http://www.fionamsinclair.co.uk/yachts/auto/hist1.htm
Autogiro Boats History 1980 – 1995
http://www.fionamsinclair.co.uk/yachts/auto/hist4.htm
*History of Wind Power
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wind_power
Windmill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windmill
Bircham Windmill
http://www.birchamwindmill.co.uk/
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