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[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl -1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Sail boats are amazing. Wtf. Have you never been in one?

[–] middlemouse@lemmy.world 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Yes I have been, they are wildly impractical for real international travel

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl -1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Apparently you don't know history.

[–] middlemouse@lemmy.world 0 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

That's a stupid argument, sail boats are not practical in the world we live in today. Their use in the past doesn't matter, because that world no longer exists.

Absurd amounts of material and food are moved quickly and safely by modern shipping , sail boats are not capable of this.

If sail boats were practical then somebody would be using them already.