For those of us that are youtube deprived (at least at work) I'm guessing that the conversation is focused on the spinnaker replacements that were developed about 10 years ago.
Dave Culp, in the SF area, hasa been promoting rule-legal soft kites for pleasure sailboats for a decade. His main website is KiteShip http://www.kiteship.com/ and the one for our types of boats are Outleader kites. There were about a half dozen people that were flying them on F-boat trimarans, they all said that the performance and handling under kites were pretty impressive. However, they are not for short-handed crews and they do seem to be more of a novelty rather than a regular part of a boat's sail inventory. What they seem to be exceptional for is as part of one's safety inventory, there's probably nothing better to deal with losing your mast in the middle of an ocean crossing. Packs small and light, this type of kite could save your life.
Here's a link to Dave's speedsailing site: http://www.dcss.org/speedsl/ Older info, but still a good read...
Fair winds,
Eric
Marina del Rey, CA
--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, "Myles Twete" <matwete@...> wrote:
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> Then there’s this simpler system: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwg17oJXPfU
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> From: electricboats@yahoogroups.com [mailto:electricboats@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dave Kellogg
> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 1:02 PM
> To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Electric Boats] electric Sailboats
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> for the 50 meter kite canoe
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr2MzMzTXoE <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr2MzMzTXoE&feature=related> &feature=related
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> for the F24 Trimaran
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnACybMhPs4
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> From: Dave Kellogg <inganear1@...>
> To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tue, March 29, 2011 3:55:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [Electric Boats] electric Sailboats
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> Myles, I have a 20 meter kite that I'm planning on trying on both my Nacra and Stiletto this summer... there are several other kite boats on UTUBE, one is on a F24 Trimaran in Hawaii. And if you want bigger there is a 50 meter kite that is really a thrill ride in a dugout canoe... Dave k
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> From: Myles Twete <matwete@...>
> To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tue, March 29, 2011 3:50:13 PM
> Subject: RE: [Electric Boats] electric Sailboats
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> Well, since this is thread is getting more about wind power than electric, I’ll throw my wind interest in the mix.
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> Why settle for sails when you can go with a kite?
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> Like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW50qhXVBqE <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW50qhXVBqE&playnext=1&list=PL37D2140F2AC8D5B8> &playnext=1&list=PL37D2140F2AC8D5B8
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> Warning: Language not suitable for sensitive ears.
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> -mt
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