Aboard the sky yacht [News]

Summary form only given, as follows. Is it a small boat using a lighter-thanair vehicle as its sail, or is it an airship that uses a boat to better maintain control? However you slice it, the Aerosail is certainly a conversation starter. (The stabilizing keel, connected by cables, isn¿¿¿t visible in this photo.) French adventurer and researcher Stephane Rousson´s aim is to sail - or pilot - this hybrid vessel from Nice, France, to Calvi, on the island of Corsica. This wind-powered trip in his latest oddball means of transportation follows Rousson´s failed attempt, in 2008, to cross the English Channel in a pedal-powered airship - a plan inspired by the climactic flying bicycle scene in the movie E.T.