How to design a sailing ship for the 21st century?

Re:How to design a sailing ship for the 21st century? by TylerE on Monday May 17, 2021 @02:41PM (#27186652)

At what point does the additional resource of building a lot more ships (which have more crew, eating more food, producing more waste) result in a net negative?

Oceangoing ships have a relatively short useful life...salt water is rough on metal.

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Re:How to design a sailing ship for the 21st century? by bombcar on Monday May 17, 2021 @03:06PM (#27187032)

I suppose the upper limit would be when it’s possible to make an ocean-wide winch system and you can just hook barges to it and pull them across the ocean.

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Re:How to design a sailing ship for the 21st century? by jasonschlatt on Monday May 17, 2021 @06:27PM (#27189180)

Just hook containers to it like cable-cars and move them across.

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