Comment by hef19898

Tjose tea clippers are amazing ships, the peak of sail boat engineering. And yes, that includes modern foils boats, as clippers are significantly larger. So yes, R&D would be limited. Building a modern version of a clipper so might be expensive. And then, well, those clippers were replaced quite early by steam powered ships tgat can only be called tiney and slow by modern standards. That, and they didn't even carry containers. But hey, maybe there is still some VC money to be grabbed through fancy renderings and pitch decks.