From: mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere   
      
   RS Wood   writes:   
      
   > [snip]   
   >   
   > The sailing ship has seen a modest revival in the last decade,   
   > especially for the transportation of cargo. In 2009, Dutch company   
   > Fairtransport started shipping freight between Europe and the   
   > Americas with the Tres Hombres, a sailing ship built in 1943. The   
   > company remains active today and has a second ship in service since   
   > 2015, the Nordlys (built in 1873).   
   >   
   > Since then, others have joined the sail cargo business. In 2016, the   
   > German company Timbercoast started shipping cargo with the   
   > Avontuur, a ship built in 1920.  In 2017, the French Blue   
   > Schooner Company started transporting cargo between Europe and   
   > the Americas with the Gallant, a sailing ship that was built in   
   > 1916.  All these sailing ships were constructed in the twentieth   
   > or nineteenth century, and were restored at a later date. However, a   
   > revival of sail cannot rely on historical ships alone, because   
   > there's not enough of them.   
   > [snip]   
      
   The John F. Leavitt, a wooden schooner launched in 1979 by Ned   
   Ackerman, was intended to carry cargo.  Ned was keen on reinventing   
   sail as a viable means of commerce.  Sadly, it foundered and sank off   
   Long Island on its maiden voyage, heavily laden with timber for the   
   Caribbean.   
      
      
   --   
   Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada   
      
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