Sailing Boat with Cargo

The model of a sailing boat with cargo, built using LEGO® pieces.

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For one of my projects, I needed a sailing boat with cargo. This is my version of it.

This project is based on the previous one. The boat is propelled by sail or oars and is designed for cargo transportation.

There is a funny story associated with the development of this project. During the preparation, I was looking for references, and on the request "sailing boat", I was persistently given boats with fore-and-aft sails, while with square sails there were only a couple of images, and those were not photos but some drawings. I wondered why boats with square sails were so unpopular.

When I finished the project, I was a little frustrated, as the sail was too big and clearly blocked the view of the boat's passenger... It was also impossible to make the sail smaller, as it would not look big enough to propel the boat...

And then it dawned on me that there was an objective reason for the unpopularity of square sails on boats! (I'm not an expert, so this is just a guess.)

⚠️ Warning! To make the rigging, I only had eight pieces "STRING 11M W. 2 KNOBS" and one piece "STRING 40 M W. 2 KNOBS", so I had to twist them in a number of places. Theoretically, this should not harm them since these are just threads, but there is still such a risk.