Windmill or Wind Turbine- powered boats: how many are out there, and are they viable?

[Ad Hoc]

What size boats are you looking at?

Catamarans for fishing boats have been widely used, and successfully too...
http://www.deepsea.co.uk/boats/mystique/boat
http://www.deepsea.co.uk/boats/seabreeze/boat

are a few examples

[megsani]

Dear Ad Hoc

We are looking at the following:

Length - 15m
Breadth - 5m
GRT - 15 (to satisfy our local licensing requirements)
Draft - 1.5m
Sea-keeping performance - sea state of up to 4 (we are caught in NE, SW monsoons)

Hope this would clarify.

Thank you.

[megsani]

Dear Ad Hoc,

I have visited the sites that you refer to. I understand that they are for sportsfishing and other uses but no reference to commercial fishing.

I am pretty sure catamarans (or trimarans) can be designed for commercial fishing purpose. What do you think?

Thank you.

[Ad Hoc]

They are used as commericial fishing boats as well as workbaots. I know for certain.
If you look in the 'gallery' section:
http://www.southboatssp.co.uk/
The dimensions you quoted, are all covered by southboats. Excellent boats these are too.

[megsani]

Thank you Ad Hoc.

That certainly gives me the comfort to look at catarmaran fishing boat.

[Windmaster]

Wind Turbine Boats?

New video on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rw_qJytbG8

Or search YouTube under "overcoming the wind"

[Paul No Boat]

If this works on water can it work as well with wheeled vehicals? I can see there is a lot of physics involved but the fact it works at all violates all we believed before. awesome.

[latestarter]

Here are some videos with wheels, I have seen better ones but am having trouble finding them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCu9wHvamtI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23yfm...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOSFp...eature=related

[Windmaster]

How about this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4j-h4vVABo