That is it is bi-stable like a sail boat that is right side up or upside down.
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Go to the beach, go out for a sail, play golf or read a funny book about happy things.
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It was many years later discovered in a sail loft at Victory barracks, now HMS Nelson, in 1960, covered by gym mats.
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She was inspired by The Atlantic Clipper, a sail-assisted cargo ship that sailed between the UK and the Caribbean in the 1980s.
She considered taking off her coat but was afraid to move that drastically, afraid that its breadth might make a sail in the wind and pull her down.
Say batteries, or hydrogen, or we strap a sail to the top of them all, none of these change the fact that gasoline is a terribly convenient fuel.
Next they hop on a traditional junk for a sail across Halong Bay, whose waters teem with prawns, oysters, squid and snapper that are staples of the local cuisine.
Yet Robert Forward, one of the committee's members, has suggested a way to squeeze even more thrust from such a sail: by passing ten times closer to the sun.
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The favourite route of Bill Keogh, a guide with outfitter Big Pine Kayak Adventures ( www.keyskayaktours.com) and author of the Florida Keys Paddling Guide, is a day trip from Seven Mile Bridge in a kayak fitted with a sail.
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Such a big sail would catch a lot of solar wind.
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The idea of using a magnetic field as a solar sail was first suggested a few years ago, but it soon became apparent that creating a field strong enough to be useful would require exotic superconducting materials that, unfortunately, do not exist.
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Although a similarly "primitive" construction, the Tangaroa benefited from more recent research on ancient sailing techniques and had a broader sail, adjustable centerboards and a hardwood cabin.
From there, its a short sail to Newport, then Jamestown, which got whacked by Superstorm Sandy.
But, it turns out, a solar sail need not always be particularly large to be useful.
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Current plans call for the probe to unfurl a solar sail 400 metres across shortly after launch.
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Getting there by boat also involves a challenging sail across the Southern Ocean, from bases like Hobart, Australia, and isolated Punta Arenas, Chile.
Panama City's Trump Ocean Club, which is currently being built, has a similar sail shape to Dubai's Burj Al Arab tower.
That was a loophole through which you could sail a 100-foot yacht.
As a result Geostorms, which could be launched as soon as 2005, has a good chance of being the first spacecraft to fly using a solar sail.
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In 2009, U.S. officials said Mexicans smuggling drugs and migrants into the United States were increasingly turning to the Pacific Ocean for a short sail to the California coast.
The man overseeing this sea change is Michel Bonnefous, a school chum of Bertarelli's who still climbs mountains with the billionaire and skims across Lake Geneva on his powerful 12-meter catamaran ("It's a mountain of sail, " he says, with a touch of awe).
The man overseeing this sea change is Michel Bonnefous, a school chum of Bertarelli's who still climbs mountains with the billionaire and skims across Lake Geneva on his powerful 40-foot catamaran ("It's a mountain of sail, " he says, with a touch of awe).
On Monday, the British military said the HMS Dauntless, a destroyer, will set sail Wednesday on a "routine deployment" to the South Atlantic, where it will relieve another ship in the region after months of preparation.
Thieves have targeted a charity helping disabled people to sail, for a second time in 18 months.
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As one of his crew later wrote, Turner didn't have a storm jib (a kind of sail) on board and at one point thought his mast had snapped.
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