Sail-powered boat delivers cargo to local businesses; represents sustainable future for watercraft
A sail-powered schooner, accompanied by a solar-powered boat, visited Brooklyn on Friday to unload cargo for local businesses.
Representing a model of sustainable transit, the schoonerĀ Apollonia began its journey in the Hudson Valley and stopped in Manhattan on Thursday before docking in Brooklyn on Friday.
The Apollonia’s journey followed in the tradition of an earlier sail freight venture, the Vermont Sail Freight Project, a low-carbon transportation project that made a few voyages in Vermont’s Champlain Valley and New York’s North Country. The initiative’s voyages down the Hudson to New York City were completed in 2013.
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View MoreNew York Cityās most populous borough, Brooklyn, is home to nearly 2.6 million residents.Ā If Brooklyn were an independent city it would be the fourth largest city in the United States. While Brooklyn has become the epitome of ācool and hipā in recent years, for those that were born here, raised families here and improved communities over the years, Brooklyn has never been āuncoolā.