Mr Quatro
02-12-18, 07:47 AM
Mayflower trimaran powered by solar and wind energy and with no crew on board. Could this be the future of the Navy happening right in front of us?
https://www.boatandboats.com/magazine/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/mayflower-1.jpg
The planned Atlantic crossing in 2020 will mark the 400th anniversary of the travel of the first Mayflower, the three-mast galleon which, on September 16th 1620, sailed off and took the Pilgrim Fathers from Plymouth harbour, England, to Cape Cod, in the U.S., after a two-month Atlantic crossing. The same Plymouth-to-Plymouth (from England to the States) route will be replicated by the new Mayflower.
https://www.boatandboats.com/magazine/mayflower-trimaran-drones.html
The crossing could require from 7 to 10 days in good sea and wind conditions ...
https://www.boatandboats.com/magazine/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/mayflower-1.jpg
The planned Atlantic crossing in 2020 will mark the 400th anniversary of the travel of the first Mayflower, the three-mast galleon which, on September 16th 1620, sailed off and took the Pilgrim Fathers from Plymouth harbour, England, to Cape Cod, in the U.S., after a two-month Atlantic crossing. The same Plymouth-to-Plymouth (from England to the States) route will be replicated by the new Mayflower.
https://www.boatandboats.com/magazine/mayflower-trimaran-drones.html
The crossing could require from 7 to 10 days in good sea and wind conditions ...