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    A New Mayflower

    Dec 10, 2019 3 minutes
    — Kim Kavin

    In 1620, a monohull sailing vessel called Mayflower, about 80 feet long, carried 102 passengers and some 30 crew from Plymouth, England, across the Atlantic Ocean to what would become known as the New World. Four hundred years later, another Mayflower, this one a 53-foot trimaran, is scheduled to make the same journey—driven by hybrid propulsion and artificial intelligence (AI), without a single soul on board.

    “The future is interesting,” says Brett Phaneuf, a founding board member of

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