"Simon de Vet" <sde### [at] istarca> wrote in message
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> Anyone have steering ideas?
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Well, the obvious suggestions have been made. Of course, they are likely to
be very slow.

A bit faster, and could be done by muscle-power or solar-power, would be to
turn it by rotating a heavy vertical shaft inside the ship for "left" and
"right" and a horizontal shaft for "up" and "down". The ship would then
orientate itself in the opposite direction to the one you were turning. Of
course, the sails might crumple a bit during turning depending on various
factors. This could be alleviated by combining it with one of the more
conventional methods, which would keep the sails filled during the turning.

Did that make sense?

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