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windmills Maud Foster loses a sail in high winds

Item: #711, Posted: 13/11/08

Over the weekend of 8-9th November, strong winds occurred, and unfortunately one of the sails at Maud Foster windmill in Boston was blown off, and fell through the roof of a neighbouring building.

Maud Foster is a working mill, with 5 sails which normally give it more power than a 4 sailed mill, but the loss of one sail shows the shortcomings - until it is replaced the mill cannot work by wind since the remaining sails are out of balance.


Mills: [Maud Foster Mill]
Tags: [sails]


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