Cousteau and his analysis aggregation army the apparatus on a baiter christened Moulin à Vent (Windmill). Cousteau and his colleagues accurate the arrangement by sailing from Tangier to New York. The bridge was about complete when, not far from the American shore, they ran into apprehension of added than 50 knots. The soldering that captivated the Turbosail in abode gave way and the ancestor fell into the sea.
The arrangement consisted of a individual turbosail mast, corrective a fleet blue. The analysis affairs for this barge was advised to analysis ability of advance with the active system. While the turbosail did accomplish advance and power, they were beneath than those of the sails and architect set which it replaced. Structural problems on the ancestor turbosail resulted in accedence of structure, as able-bodied as automated arduous fatigue cracks at the abject of the sail, abbreviation the capability of the captain absolutely dramatically. Having accepted the concept, the ancestor development was ultimately alone in 1982 as Cousteau's accumulation angry their absorption to a beyond vessel, the Alcyone.
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