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To: Condor who wrote (28607)	3/15/2004 9:27:51 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 39344

So how many tons of pellets can that rubber boat with the Johnson Seahorse 20 carry? Maybe of you made it solar powered it would be economic. How about wind power? You could make a sailboat automated. All it takes is a set of hydrofoils of say 30,000 cubic metres capacity. Let's say there are 50 of them. That is 600 CM per foil. Each foil would be 10 metres by 3 metres by 20 metres deep and draw 15 metres. The craft could carry 22.500 tons. You group foils together in stiff 200' hulls of 5 h-foils per side, and link the hulls with flex couplings. The drive would be 60 degree slanted airfoils, 6 per hull, 20 feet wide at base by 100 feet high, with louvres to control lift. I would estimate the top speed of the snake-tiki outrigger hydra-foil carrier would be about 35 knots. In very high winds, the airfoils would slide down to the deck and steam electric motors would drive the train. I know it sounds wacky, and I am totally wacky, but it still might work. A variant of this was suggested in the 60's from a work on a catamaran design called pencil slim. EC<:-}