{"id":239,"date":"2006-12-05T07:28:15","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T15:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=239"},"modified":"2006-12-05T07:28:15","modified_gmt":"2006-12-05T15:28:15","slug":"return-to-the-age-of-sail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/05\/return-to-the-age-of-sail\/","title":{"rendered":"Return to the age of sail?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.montaraventures.com\/pix\/sailingship.jpg\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\nYou know fuel prices are going up and carbon emissions standards are tightening when <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20061204\/sc_nm\/germany_sails_dc_2\">we return to a prior age to harvest technology<\/a>. Now admittedly, the picture above isn&#8217;t your garden variety <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/xebec\">xebec<\/a> (great scrabble word btw,) but it is interesting that the hybrid technology of the 19th century is making a comeback.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis kind of reminds me of kite surfing technology wed to a cargo ship. Pretty different than the prior implementations that combined coal burning steam engines with traditional sailing ship technology. I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing one of these things pass by my window.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<small><br \/>\n34 days until OSU plays for the national championship<br \/>\nOhio State\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2006 record: <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/ncaaf\/teams\/oob;_ylt=ApiRDtt7p8MTZpktFXDiDqUcvrYF\">12-0<\/a> Next up: Florida 1\/8\/2007<br \/>\nTune: <a href=\"https:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?playlistId=119173676&#038;s=143441&#038;i=119173374\">First Cut is the Deepest<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluebeat.com\/artists\/28910\">Norma Frazer<\/a><br \/>\nTechnorati Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/sailing\" rel=\"tag\">Sailing<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/ship\" rel=\"tag\">Ship<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/hybrid\" rel=\"tag\">Hybrid<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/mike+harding+blog\">Mike Harding Blog<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know fuel prices are going up and carbon emissions standards are tightening when we return to a prior age to harvest technology. Now admittedly, the picture above isn&#8217;t your garden variety xebec (great scrabble word btw,) but it is interesting that the hybrid technology of the 19th century is making a comeback. This kind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}