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Last month, I went out sailing, and we got out to the Farallon Islands, 25 miles off the Gate.
His fingers find the pillowcase's sailing masts.
When you're sailing against the wind and there is wind resistance, you have to move your boat back and forth, and back and forth.
You have to actually capture the resistance coming against you when you're sailing.
And this boat, quite ugly, is called the Mutiara 4. And I went sailing on it, and we did surveys throughout the southern South China sea and especially the Java Sea.
I mean, that would be a bit like asking Chris Columbus in 1491, "Hey Chris, you know, what happens if it turns out that there's a continent between here and Japan, where you're sailing to, what will be the consequences for humanity if that turns out to be the case?"
Sailing the skies in their saucers and occasionally abducting people for experiments their parents wouldn't approve of.
Option number two: Why don't we play it like golf or sailing?
So the very simple idea was to use the ancient technique of sailing and tacking of the wind to capture or intercept the oil that is drifting down the wind.
We just took a simple sailing boat and we tried to pull something long and heavy, but as we tacked back and forth, what we lost was two things: we were losing pulling power and direction.
So I built this small sailing robot with the rudder at the front, and I was trying to pull something very long and heavy, so that's a four-meter-long object just to pull, and I was surprised with just a 14-centimeter rudder, I could control four meters of absorbent.
And so that's the beginning of Protei, and that's the first boat in history that completely changed the shape of the hull in order to control it, and the properties of sailing that we get are very superior compared to a normal boat.
So what we are doing is an accelerated evolution of sailing technology.
So the first thing as I show you in the video is that we may be able to control the trajectory of a sailing boat better, or we may be able to never be in irons, so never facing the wind, we always can catch the wind from both sides.
But new properties of a sailing boat.
Other property is this: A normal sailing boat has a centerboard here and a rudder at the back, and these two things are what creates most resistance and turbulence behind the boat, but because this doesn't have either a centerboard or a rudder, we hope that if we keep working on this hull design we can improve and have less resistance.
You are laying down in a flexible torpedo, sailing at high speed, controlling the shape of the hull with your legs and controlling the sail with your arms.
It's like people are sailing into a headwind all the time.
They use satellite positioning and machine-learning technology to automatically identify if a boat is just sailing or fishing, which are the white spots here.
Well, it's me on my sailing boat.
You know, one thing is clear: I love sailing, for sure.
I actually also love designing sailing boats.
But I love sailing, because sailing is associated with slowness.
Well, let's go sailing, I want to take you sailing here, to this place, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
I read every book I could on sailing, and then eventually, having been told by my school I wasn't clever enough to be a vet, left school age 17 to begin my apprenticeship in sailing.
And never in my life had I ever translated that definition of finite that I'd felt on board to anything outside of sailing until I stepped off the boat at the finish line having broken that record.
And it was a bit like seeing something you weren't expecting under a stone and having two choices: I either put that stone to one side and learn more about it, or I put that stone back and I carry on with my dream job of sailing around the world.
And it made me make a decision I never thought I would make: to leave the sport of solo sailing behind me and focus on the greatest challenge I'd ever come across: the future of our global economy.
It's, you know, sailing upon some land, and thinking, "I think I'll draw that bit of land," and then wondering, "Maybe there's some more land to draw."
The only thing I did was, I made it possible for them to turn those blades so you could sail this thing in the canal, because I love sailing.
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