The story goes that around 1856, a man from Missouri named Thomas built a “windwagon,” a “prairie clipper”  to sail the Western plains. Unfortunately, despite sailing around 100 miles down the Santa Fe trail, his “Prairie Clipper Company” was not a commercial success.  Now a team of Swedish tall ship sailors, riggers, carpenters, filmakers and engineers have built designed and built the windwagon Astrakan, to “sail.. in the wake of Wind Wagon Tomas.”  Recently they posted a video of the Astrakan sailing in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert.  Thanks to Tom Russell on the Linked-in Traditional Sail Professionals group for pointing it out.

Windwagon in Black Rock Desert