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Uploaded by on Jul 6, 2008

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July 2008, Daniel Tracy and Ian Fisher disclose using The Force Balenced Kite-sail Device.

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  • Your motor seems to be down in the video, Is it running?

  • @wildblue2 There seems to be almost no limit. Skysails offers a System with 160 m² for freight vessels and is planning to extend up to 600 m².

  • What breaking weight is on those lines?

  • take it to bermuda... that would be something.

  • is there a limit to kite size?

  • i think this is something i would want to have

  • In the summer of 2007 and 2008 we conducted kite powered fishing expeditions using a traction kite. We used an outboard engine to motor out of the harbor and then deployed the kite. The engine was lifted and lines were set. The sky is the limit for the future of kitesailing.

  • is it imaginable to use it as only propulsion system instead of a conventional sailing

    rigg ?

  • The kite can be flown on all courses, even strait into the wind with the help of the engine. Fuel savings is possible on all downwind courses and reaching courses up to 45 degrees into the wind.

  • Looks good downwind but how does it go tacking close to the wind?

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