timmybuddhadude said..coastflyer said...They have been using kites for years to propel very large ships!
skysails-group.com/ Jesus Christ! Had no idea! Thanks for that !..totally enlightened..! ..thats brilliant
Thats just a prototype which never got off the ground for obvious reasons.
We trialled a kite on an offshore yacht years ago. At best completely impractical and at worst dangerous. It worked fine by itself, but with the mainsail up there was too much of a vacuum and we couldn't launch it without a huge mess around. Mind you the design of the thing was a bag of ****.
