I'm surprised they are going to stick with the hard wing sail concept if they wanted to keep costs down.

If I recall, after the last go-round, they said the major expense was the 100+ person shore team required to mount/dismount the wing?

Building boats only 10 feet shorter, but still requiring a huge shore team to launch/retrieve the wing every day is not going to be much cheaper than the 72's.


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