Green washing
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There’s a great rant over on Sailing Anarchy about the continuing use of wind energy and sailing in various vaporware investment schemes that make little sense except as tools to separate fools from their money. B9 Shipping is SA’s well deserved target, which perhaps should have replaced the 9 with an S? To counter that, here’s a little green lesson from the past:
1978: Sunburst (formerly Bits ’n Pieces) was built in St. Maarten, from the off cuts of Peter Spronk’s large charter catamaran builds. I’ve always found this little schooner to be utterly charming, and it just goes to show how uncomplicated green really is… waste not, want not.
