sailboat

To complain about this is like buying a sailboat and complaining when you sail it into a hurricane.

Just to clarify: Unlike a regular sailboat, you cannot sail against the wind with a solar sail.

Co-founder is a very longtime friend of mine who lives on his sailboat in the SF marina.

The only reason you can sail upwind in a sailboat on the water is because you have a keel pushing against the water to prevent you from blowing downwind.

A wind-driven land vehicle can tack just as well as a sailboat can, and possibly better.

You say that now, but when your sailboat gets eaten by a dark matter kraken you will sing a different song.

My small datapoint that helps me to some degree at my moments of 'life dispair' is my 'hobby', a small sailboat.

Solar is almost always the way to go, as the sun is usually shining where ever you're at (some folks do go with a wind turbine, but they're unreliable at sailboat scales).

Work, they also block my online friends blog about living on a canadian sailboat*.

I've also wanted to lead a bit more of an independent life on a sailboat, traveling within my home.

No sailboat ever won a contest by staying in the dry dock.

My sailboat still have the fantastic new way of rigging, so I'm fat dumb and happy.

Press Your Luck was apparently content to just mention the contestant won a "Sailboat" without tethering it to a brand which seems like overlooked opportunity even for the simpler time since contemporaries like The Price Is Right were integrating brands into their show.

Some important limitations to keep in mind with solar sails are that the momentum imparted on them tails off according to an inverse square law, and also that since they have no medium like water to push against (hence no rudder), you can't "tack into the wind" like a sailboat can.