A Prospect of Sail-Assisted Fishing Boats

Abstract

Ships are potentially suitable for using wind energy. Almost every ship before the 19 th century had been using only the wind power by classic sails, and supporting the worldwide trades and logistics in those days. In 1980's after the last oil crises, many kind of modern sail-assisted ships were developed. Now, they will be hoped to become one of the best solution against the increasing CO₂ discharge. In this paper, the author tries to review the past sail assisted-ships, and investigate into the prospect of the sail-assisted ships especially focusing to the fishing boat in future.