R.I.P. Scout26
But Chile is on the west side of the South American continent. Were they going to go through the Panama Canal, sail around the southern tip of Sudamerica ... or land at some Atlantic port and travel from there to Chile by carbon-emitting modes of transportation?
Burro drawn cart.
Steamer car fired by whale oil.
If they're going to go all 19th century, a big huffing puffing smoke belching lignite coal burning locomotive.
I'd like.to see her "green" yacht stripped of every bit of petroleum based material. Also, any nonrenewable materials like aluminum, steel, bronze. And any electronics made with rare earth elements.
If they were really serious about the environment, they'd be in something like this:Although they might have a little trouble recruiting oarsmen oarspersons.
I believe there was a "Viking" ship that sailed from the Great Lakes back to Europe. There was a documentary about it.
Draken Harald HÃ¥rfagre
Hmmm ...No news since early 2018. I wonder if they ran out of money and had to park it somewhere.
2019 Mystic Seaport During 2019 Draken will be docked the whole year at the world-renowned Mystic Seaport Museum, CT, USA. The Museum’s grounds cover 19 acres on the Mystic River in Mystic, CT and include a recreated New England coastal village, a working shipyard, formal exhibit halls, and state-of-the-art artifact storage facilities. The Museum is home to more than 500 historic watercraft, including four National Historic Landmark vessels. The Museum hosts 284,000 visitors annually and has an active membership base of 14,000 from all over the United States and the world. Draken will not be open to the public exempt for the Viking Days 1-2 June organized by Mystic Seaport.2020 ExpeditionWe are at the moment working on getting Draken out sailing again in 2020. We are looking at different options for 2020. We will probably be doing a tour along one of the U.S./Canadian coastlines. If you represent a city or a company that would be interested to partner with us for our next adventure, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Many, if not most, of the tall ships are in a constant financial struggle to remain operational. Proper maintenance on a big wooden sailing ship is intensive, time consuming and expensive.
This one seems to be doing just fine, though I think it gets a lot of funding from public sources. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Sullivan_(schooner)
The device on the sail is wrong-think and patriarchal. It would have to be changed to cubes of tofu.