Monday, February 22, 2016

Canoe Boat Plans | Windmill Sailboats

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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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