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Editor’s Note: Kellie Pollock worked for CNN International as a producer, before she left to sail round the world. We haven’t covered that distance entirely by the power of wind alone. We have used ...

If you search the outer reaches of the internet you will find all sorts of web sites and videos purporting to answer to free energy in the form of perpetual motion machines and other fantastical ...

The mainsail, just as it sounds, is the main sail, and the jib is a smaller sail at the front of the boat that provides additional speed and control. Once we cleared the marina, it was time to raise ...

Over 200 years after steamships first began crossing the ocean, wind power is finding its way back into seafaring. Global shipping firm Maersk is planning to fit spinning “rotor sails” to one of its ...