thank you so much for this excessive engineering feat. this is an idea ive kicked in my head for so many years, it's amazing to see the answers in front of me so clearly... the figure 8, the strobe light, the ship-based localisation.... truly you've saved me countless hours of mental wrangling and i feel like buying a winch and arduino for my boat!!!

To those concerned that their wasting power by flying in a figure eight. They’re not. Flying the kite like that makes it travel faster relative to the wind. This greatly increases the thrust it generates. A bit like how those America’s Cup boats can actually sail faster than the wind, because moving the sail across the wind increases the effective wind speed.

@shawnduddridge

3 ай бұрын

Was more concerned that theyre wasting power by not having a bigger sail on the ship itself.. 🤔

@fjb4932

3 ай бұрын

@q.e.d., Any one that's "concerned" about wasting anything on this planet is delusional enough to think it really matters. They believe they'll get a medal and accolades when they return to the Universe. Dreams are nice . . . ☆

Great work, I can see the 'ahead vision'. Dont get stuck in "this is what we've done before". Keep it up.

I've been trying to figure out the recovery procedure and finally figured it out. Looks like that recovery line on the leading edge of the sail going to the top of the mast, stays attached to the sail at all times. You can just make it out in a slack state at 2:13. Very cool technology.

Propulsing is not a word. Propelling is the one you searched so long and hard for

@11kungfu11

4 жыл бұрын

The different between sounding and being smart.

@weatheranddarkness

4 жыл бұрын

@@11kungfu11 "difference"

@11kungfu11

4 жыл бұрын

@@weatheranddarkness touch type fail.

@edgarbleikur1929

4 жыл бұрын

Twas my first thought, though propulsing is in fact a word just the wrong word... propulse. Verb. (third-person singular simple present propulses, present participlepropulsing, simple past and past participlepropulsed) (obsolete) To repel; to drive off or away.

@sebastiankeano4926

4 жыл бұрын

Yup.. These people just proved that for ~ 5mln$ it's possible to attach kite to the boat..! Yet failed to learn the words to describe what they actually intended to do..!

Wow! I am blown away. Never seen anything like this! Wow! Wow!

yesssssssssssssss , make it bigger. 25knots go go

Fantastic technology! Keep going ! I am very impressed. Now that you have the knowledge put 3 or more together and I bet that boat cruises for a long time a good speed! Go for it ! What a break through in sailing Tech. Good for you !

@mitchpender8113

4 жыл бұрын

Umm no Gary it's an answer to a non existent problem .. I sail full time both kites and my liveaboard sailboat .. there are so many more efficient methods to move a large displacement vessel via the wind with NO technology required

@wdentondouglas

Жыл бұрын

I'm a little late to this conversation but "no technology" is an overstatement, for sure. Can you explain what you meant, Mitch? I kite and sail as well, and I'm sure kites are tools that haven't been used to their potential in displacement hull sailing. The right aspect ratio kite with a large area and suitability long line lengths may not have been attempted yet (even now 2 years after you wrote your post).

Kevin Costner in waterworld already did this and his was way better being shot out of a cannon and no wasteful figure eight robotic pattern, and he designed and built his in a post-apocalyptic water wasteland... Smooookers!!

@linolinco

3 жыл бұрын

The figure-8 is the opposite of "wasteful" - it generates a lot more power.

@haroldrhodes2610

Жыл бұрын

True Story, my wife and I lived on the Big Island and were married by Sheldon Weldon, who fabricated much of Costner's boat in Water World. We visited his home and he was fascinating.

@markusbroyles1884

5 ай бұрын

@@haroldrhodes2610 I know Sheldon ~ He got me a job making props for Mike Milgrem on set. We were extras , my wife and I. She even had a line in the movie which she never got any extra pay for. She fills the screen and says "Kill him kill him kill him ! " Pretty funny. The star of that film was the BOAT which I never got tired of studying up close. All my friends from Malibu were the stunt crew from Stunts Unlimited. That was a fun job...Costner shamed himself and ruined some lives over there. Everybody knew what was happening. I found out a little late. The movie business is a squalid seedy affair... But I dug lots of the crew... like a high school reunion.

That's working with your planet! Keep up the good work!

Admirável mundo novo! Fantástic!

That’s a UFO at night if I ever saw one. What a great and beautiful vessel that is

@letitsnow5929

4 жыл бұрын

The original name of the boat was planetsolar and he do a world tour in 2012

There is a good use for that idea, they do this same concept in the sport of “kite boarding.” So my question is. Why don’t they add an appropriate size kite to all life rafts in eluding it also in the survival gear of our navy pilots. An appropriate sized controllable kite would propel a survival raft more efficiently against an unfavorable current or towards a known land mass or away from drifting into enemy hands. Its compact and folds up neatly in a small space as part of the survival kit. Turns the raft into a sailboat instead of a drifting log.

@ridermak4111

4 жыл бұрын

william Burgos Wonderfully obvious, or should be. 👍 Similar but different......why doesn’t every over-big-water aircraft have a device just under it’s skin that automatically deploys when submerged, inflates buoyancy devices, deploys a tethered helium balloon equipped with an antenna transmitting GPS coordinates of the impact location while a super-bright strobe light flashes from said balloon at several hundred feet altitude. Come to think of it, an almost identical device would be a nice addition to your suggestion.

@silentspoon6655

2 жыл бұрын

You cannot tack or travel upwind at all with a kite while sitting on a raft. At a minimum, you would need a keel and rudder that can hold its position while you loop the kite. For snowkiting, the edges on our skis/board allow us to tack and travel upwind. For kiteboarding, our heel edge digs into the water to provide the resistance needed to tack. I have put 5m - 14m kites up over kayaks and can tell you from experience it will not work. Traveling downwind, on the other hand, works just fine for a few seconds until you approach wind speed, and the kite luffs and loses its power. You will fight to keep the kite looping, power will pick up, and be quickly lost as you speed up. Watch kiteboarders and snowkiters closely, and you will see they are traveling perpendicular to the kite at all times. In this video, it is clear they are also traveling (or attempting to travel) downwind. Why didn't the kite luff in this video as the vessel picked up speed? Two possibilities; either they only showed clips of the kite fully powered, or the kite never moved the vessel enough.

@freelectron2029

2 жыл бұрын

Because you need a keel for a kite to work. Otherwise its simply a parachute dragging you down wind. as long as there is resistance to keep them inflated. Kites aren't magic or new.

@rydenkaye9735

Жыл бұрын

You don’t need a keel per se any lateral resistance works. Like the edge of a kiteboard, the hulls of a hobie 16 etc. A dedicated keel/centreboard is not necessary if the hull is shaped in certain ways

Look at the boat’s wake, totally not moving! Am i wrong?

@rheinerzufall4056

4 жыл бұрын

I Think it is just aquadynamc Shaped

@nllommertnl

4 жыл бұрын

sailing doesn't make that big of a wake anyways. and its says the average speed is 5 knots which is 10kmh that wont make a much of a wake and on such a big boat its almost like not moving at all

@darrenkastl8160

4 жыл бұрын

Yea! Its not going anywhere!!! Lol!

@tonymartin2077

3 жыл бұрын

Florian V.D. Even at 5 there should be a wake. The waves are less then a foot! During a tack I slow down almost half speed about 4ish knots and I still can see a wake.

@glenndelisle5662

3 жыл бұрын

It seems that way to me too. The question I have is, With all those solar panels doesn’t it completely power the boat and charge a huge battery bank at the same time so you can run at night?

Fantastic! They got it to work😁

@kittonsmitton

4 жыл бұрын

Not from what I saw.

Simply awesome.

That boat isn’t going fast at all. I suppose they’re testing out the theory and scale up. I could see that, potentially, the kite cold be much bigger than any sail. Can it tack?

@patrickjohnson611

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, however the tack angle is 179deg. If the whole world is an ocean then they are set! Perhaps this is an ad for more ocean and less land. Jk, can't knock innovators for trying!

@linolinco

3 жыл бұрын

Of course kites can tack, ask any kitesurfer. Perhaps not 45 degrees off the wind, but 60-70 is certainly possible. But even leaving that aside, this makes one badass spinnaker. Bow kite designs have a huge wind range, you could essentially make it self-reefing.

@craigschruhm2379

3 жыл бұрын

Large freighters will all use enormous kites in the coming years. Reduction in fuel costs, greater efficiency and lower emissions mean they will be upscaled. Wing sails are already appearing on cargo ships, kites have even more potential.

With all that performance I thought I was going to see the most massive kite. If you looked at the waves the boat wasnt even moving through them.

@CrispyOkra

Жыл бұрын

They're typically used to decrease consumption, not the sole mode of mobility. The newish Silent catamaran can reach their cruise speed of 8 knots with a combination of solar and one of these kites, without depleting their batteries. Large ocean going container ships use them as well.

@rydenkaye9735

Жыл бұрын

Because the kite is moving through the air doing figure 8s it experiences true wind but also apparent wind (what you feel when you stick your hand out the window of a car on the highway) these two winds combine in strength and direction to make the wind the kite experiences up to 4x stronger than the real wind. This combined with the more efficient 3d wing shape makes kits about 10x more powerful than traditional sails given the same area

@drzavahercegbosnaponosna5974

9 ай бұрын

@@CrispyOkra The vessel is equipped with a lot of PV panels. Does it move by using electric motors and skysail wind power?

@CrispyOkra

9 ай бұрын

@@drzavahercegbosnaponosna5974 Yes.

Fantastic! !

is there a minimum surface area or calculation for sails for a boat/ yahct to use wind propusion to move a vessel at a certain speed?

@sweeyong7756

4 жыл бұрын

@THE GENERAL sorry..i mean just using wind and sail. not charge any motors. some have sing sail, some have multiple sails.

I had this same idea. I can see now it's not practical. I'm glad someone with money tried this concept and this video is very valuable in demonstrating the drawbacks of such a concept. The old way of capitalizing on wind power with a jib and main sail is still the best way in my opinion.

@goransvraka3171

4 жыл бұрын

Perhaps it just needs a bigger sail for the boat size

@MrFurriephillips

4 жыл бұрын

Not practical, you say... kzread.info/dash/bejne/oo2qmM1ucZDReMo.html

@effyoo6081

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrFurriephillips I know right! I've seen some screaming kiteboats

@q.e.d.9112

Жыл бұрын

There are circumstances where mast and sails are not practical. Try modern cargo handling methodology with a couple of masts in the way. This device can be fitted to a ship’s forecastle, folds away completely and is used as a fuel saving device. The ship steams to her normal schedule with the kite used when conditions are suitable. I read somewhere that given a fuel reduction of about 10%, the device could pay for itself in under 2 years. That could be bullshit for all I know but I don’t think you should regard this as designed to be anything more than auxiliary power. Apart from not impeding cargo handling as masts do, kites have other advantages over sails. Depending on where you attach the line, you can completely eliminate any heeling moment. You can fly the kite at altitudes where the wind is both stronger and steadier. There’s a video of a short race between a number of different vessels including a windsurfer, a foiling cat a three-man-trapezing cat and a foiling kite boarder. Not only did the kite board win by a country mile, but he was both footing faster and pointing higher than any of the rest when hard on the wind.

Was the boat suppose to move at some point? Did I miss something?

So cool!!

Qui a inventé se concept c une idée de génie absolue

Looks like a lot of work.

It wasn’t moving or am I wrong

How do you know when to bring it down without it falling in the water?

The kite is just a lil bit small for that boat

@tomickes8598

4 жыл бұрын

and it it were bigger the way it was going it would pull the bow all over the place !!! giving a rough ride

@linolinco

3 жыл бұрын

Can't compare these 1:1, for two reasons: a) the kite is higher up where wind is about twice that closer to sea level, and b) the kite is moving in figure-8s which means it goes about 5x faster than the boat. Aerodynamic lift is proportional to airspeed - so mentally multiply the kite area by factor of 10 - seems big enough now? They've achieved 20-30% fuel savings on ocean crossing *freighters* with this technology, I think you can trust them to size the kite correctly for this boat. :)

@HansKeesom

3 жыл бұрын

@@linolinco Would this work on a foiling catamaran?

@linolinco

3 жыл бұрын

@@HansKeesom I don't see why not. A kite causes far less heeling so a larger area can be flown than with conventional sails. Needs to be actively flown so (unless you have the fancy SkySails autopilot) probably be more of a racing thing. I reckon the next speed sailing world record could be taken by a foiling kiteboat.

Would it work together with Sails? And could hydrofoils be effective too, or would kites and sails be too weak together?

@vgames1543

4 жыл бұрын

@@Liberator12k Interesting. I thought it might be an improvement, bur I am not very experienced.

@LCC389

4 жыл бұрын

They shade the solar panels.

@LoanwordEggcorn

4 жыл бұрын

@@Liberator12k @Vgames 1 Here's a kite powered hydrofoil trimaran: kzread.info/dash/bejne/hHeTx5t_prPRkto.html 36 knots.

Thank god someone has finally found an emissions free way to harness the wind for maritime transport! Keep it up guys

@JohnLee-

4 жыл бұрын

Nothing new it call a sail boat, being around a few thousand year

@hattemalhaar3135

4 жыл бұрын

@@JohnLee- you learn something new every day. Thanks!

It would be nice to know the wind angles it can be used Also the min and max wind speed it's safe to fly.

@Kitetender

Жыл бұрын

depends on the kite and hull. sailing kites is awesome. its all about apparent wind.

Фантастика 👏👏👏👍

Is it more efficient than a regular sail

how is up wind or close reach?

Wow amazing...

I mean considering you can make the kite as big as the sky itself that is no reason why you shouldn't be able to go the exact speed af the wind on any given day. This is a baby kite though.

not sure what they trying to achieve, but Captain Sparrow was sailing long time ago using sea shells on dry land ..arrrrr

It said automated pilot. Is that only for the rudder or does it include flight control?

Amazing 🤩

I prefer my sailboat ~6kts , max speed 11,7kts (with 35kts wind) Why not use a big sailboat like a ocean liner for passenger transport ?

How big is kite surfese m2 and how much dos the boat weight kg?

How do you avoid running over the sail when it comes down?

@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665

2 жыл бұрын

You de power the kite by taking it close to vertical then winch it in down onto the stub mast on the fore deck. Though windsurfer kites have a inflated beam in the kite that holds the shape and will float the kite on the surface of the water... from where its launched In their case.

top speed 9.8 Nds what does Nds stand for? is Nds better than knots, kilometers per hour. miles per hour?

@LuigiSimoncini

4 жыл бұрын

knots in French

@LoanwordEggcorn

4 жыл бұрын

@@LuigiSimoncini Grazie!

Very cool! You meant "propelling," right?

This PULLS the boat where sails push the boat , correct?

What is the advantage?

Saw 9 knots indicated somewhere! It looked like the yacht was standing still!

What unit is nds, knots?

WOW AMAZING

How well does it work without a computer?

Experiments are great and these people deserve credit. The wide flat boat could have trouble in big wind/waves.

How is this propulsing?

Sounds like sailing with more steps

@nllommertnl

4 жыл бұрын

less steps though. you have almost no care of wind direction and its fully automated.

Ah let's try mast, boom, stays, sheets...... actual control.

@tommyodonovan3883

4 жыл бұрын

AHRRRR

why can it only fly 9.5 hours? What happens if you go over?

Now let’s see it go UPWIND 🤓🤓🤓

Isn't the kite shedding power with all its looping back and forth crazily? What is the engineering reason for that motion, rather than taming it to pull steadily in one position?

@Kitetender

Жыл бұрын

apparent wind

does it go only downwind? also sidewind? or also upwind?

@williamchamberlain2263

8 ай бұрын

Action against the keel(s) should be able to go a little into the wind

In just a few minutes one can understand the simplicity of sailboat and it’s inherent advantages without even bring up its upwind sail capacity.

@___Chris___

3 жыл бұрын

A sailboat isn't simplistic at all. We're just used to it. Most of all: keep in mind that in this example the additional kitesail is nothing but a little optional gimmick for some extra power, on top of its main propulsion system. This is first and foremost a SOLAR boat (and the fist boat to have completed a circumnavigation under sun power alone) - and yes, by nature it can point as high to the wind as you want and is 10times more simplistic than a sailboat. What drives maintenance and costs up in a sailboat? Basically everything that has moving parts and/or is exposed to the elements. Sailing vessels have A LOT of that. Sails, including multiple sailplans, running + standing rigging, Diesel engine, winches... On the other hand: solar panels, charge controllers and brushless electric motors are highly reliable and almost maintenance-free. In other words: the solar(!) vessel is the part with the real merits, at least as long as the overall vessel is light enough (and in this regard, i.e. when you look at displacement per solar peak power, many other solar boats are actually doing better than the PlanetSolar Turanor). I admit that solar vessels don't work when you need to carry a lot of cargo, but for simple cruisers (e.g. have a look at the Sun Concept 12.0 Cruise!), they actually make more sense than sailboats which are motoring or motorsailing half of the time anyways because the wind isn't in their favor.

@angela1984a

2 жыл бұрын

@@___Chris___ Trimarans and performance cruising catamarans seem to solve that "wind isn't in their favor"-part...

Can you do it? Sure. Would that be practical especially for short handed sailing? I doubt that.

I had this idea when was 9 years old and that was a long long time ago now.

Yes, it looks cool, but there's a reason our ancestors didn't use kites to cross the oceans. It's the surface area of the sail that gives the power and that kite is like trying to pull a train with a horse and carriage.

What does Nds stand for? 1:10

@curtismayne1

4 жыл бұрын

Kingjeffkoch Not doing shit!

@shanekonarson

4 жыл бұрын

curtismayne1 haaaaaaaaaa Lol gold , yeah didn’t look like it was doing much , was a big boat though . Be interesting to see it on a 30 footer

Its a great idea. No power use at all

Seems Seeing solar ship sun supply stops short so sinceforth suppling Support some sorta sail sent soaring

Brilliant idea, With multiple computer controlled sails this could be expanded to multiple sails and work for all shipping, passenger and commercial. With commercial it would cut down on fuel costs and for passenger it could be the sole source of power when combined with solar. Good job.

@stuartbrown2111

4 жыл бұрын

Then it get hit with a bolt of lightining, on a dark broody sky, now they fucked, hang on dont worry, riase the kite an er avoid the lighting bolts and they er waves, and set a course for a safe harbour laughing my black as off, you must be in a warm room conceptualisng theorums about sextants watching your barometer,,,, get the actual fuck out of hear, those lilly livered deck swabs would buckle in a mild roister, real sailors use sials as they work, all this isak newton shit is just laughable, laughable on a stable flat clam sea, mind you yul get a good earth for the lightinening if you lick the tether and wear rubber boots :) lol good luck..........

I don’t get it.. how tidi you steer / control it

Why is the flight time only limited to 9 hours?

You know it's crap when they put up figures but leave out the distance travelled,

amazing idea for our future!!! thanks ❤️

Interesting test - the figure 8 pattern seems unnecessary waste of power but I am sure someone has put a lot of thought into this - definitely keep experimenting and trying this in more variations

@linolinco

3 жыл бұрын

The figure 8 generates *more* power, as any kitesurfer can tell you. Think of it this way: the lift of an airfoil is proportional to its airspeed. If the kite travels 5x as much as the boat due to the figure 8 patttern, then its average airspeed is 5x the boat speed, hence 5x the power.

@honumoorea873

Жыл бұрын

It's the most efficient way known today, try kite surf and you'll see for yourself.

Imagine fouling those lines in a near Hurricane conditions, 😜

@quijybojanklebits8750

4 жыл бұрын

Nah you leave them out and boom you got yourself a big ass paraglider

@clouclouc

4 жыл бұрын

You hit 35 knots haha

@j.t.6700

4 жыл бұрын

@@clouclouc Haha 😄

@redwolfexr

2 жыл бұрын

If you are out in a small boat in hurricane conditions then your parasail is the LEAST of your worries.

why not having sails instead ?

Uhhhhhhhh...maybe because they were too busy looking up flying the “kite” but did they realize that they weren’t moving? Was the kite generating energy to be stored for propulsion later? I can’t imagine that kite would be ideal for physically pulling the boat in anything but flat water on sunny perfectly windy days??

@linolinco

3 жыл бұрын

By your reasoning a sail on a mast wouldn't be ideal for physically pulling a boat in anything but flat water either... more dangerous actually as the heeling moment is much larger.

It looks logical but is it practical? Of course, practicality is what you are trying to build into it!

Any reason one can't rig a 42' or 52' sail boat with this sail on front to give more speed? Love it. I guess I love the technology just as much as the added speed going across oceans.

@pentachronic

2 жыл бұрын

Why would you ? A spinnaker is more efficient as it has a larger sail area and is directly coupled to the boat which means it would be more efficient.

@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665

2 жыл бұрын

You can ... Theres a chap who rigged a round chute to his yatch off a stub mast ..

@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665

2 жыл бұрын

@@pentachronic Actually a kite sail flying in a figure of 8 is many times more powerful for a given area and because it can fly above the turbulent surface layer the wind speed is more constant and is higher generally.

@pentachronic

2 жыл бұрын

@@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665 Ok, I stand corrected, but I don't understand why it would be. From my understanding of physics on a kite vs a spinnaker you have a smaller surface area, even if the wind is faster due to being above the ground attraction, the PSI will still not outstrip a larger sail area. Please show me the math/physics as I'm intrigued.

@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665

2 жыл бұрын

@@pentachronic The power is generated because the kite formes a 3dimensional aerofoil with the tube Spar forming the leading edge, the other contributing factor is the speed of the kite flying in its figure of 8 pattern the angle of the wing is akin to the pitch and speed of a propeller in the air rather than a passive primitive hang gliders wing. There are also Ram air kites.. As for the numbers i will try to find you some links ... the largest kite systems have been deployed on cargo ships. At large size they do have limits like tacking into the wind but the figures are on a par with some poor conventional sailing vessels. The other is if you are faced with weak intermittent winds ... You do have the option of going higher though to find more consistent airs. When it drops completely you have to haul it back in at the moment ..a stub mast can keep it ready above the fore deck in a calm but ..I suggested a larger kite with helium ballonets to provide enough bouyancy to support the kite and its harness on pehapse a minimal length of line till it picks up. kzread.info/dash/bejne/q4B4xJuwZrufldI.html Theres a basic area traction force diag. kzread.info/dash/bejne/dquduraylZmeYbA.html This is a performance foiling kite boat near 37 kts kzread.info/dash/bejne/o6af1MepicfFpaw.html A kite boat hull... Tacking... Moving up and down wind. kzread.info/dash/bejne/aGh-ko-epMfZZag.html Brief History.. kzread.info/dash/bejne/fqSFxJKJituYcqQ.html New Atlantic record kzread.info/dash/bejne/lpmlj9Gpkca8hbA.html This guy might be able to give you the numbers Sam Light kzread.info/dash/bejne/e5iYm6ONpMjVh7A.html

А как это автоматический пилот? Как он устроен? Как он сам на одной веревке летает не пойму...

But why does it have a nonstop flight time?

What does Nds stand for? How fast is 9.8 Nds?

@johnypohoda3781

4 ай бұрын

I think they wanted to write knots, but as French speakers used their term "Nœud", which abbreviated to Nds.

Genius. Pioneers. Leaders. (102 sheep.)

What does Nds stand for?

@kevinwynn6582

4 жыл бұрын

Near dead stop. 🤣🤣🤣

maybe it should be used to charge the ship battery during the day while solar panel power the propeler. so during the night the battery is full and can be used or just keep the kite to powerup powur the motor.

Has anybody attempted ocean crossing with skysails ?

Because regular sailing wasn't nearly complicated enough.... ?

OH! Go fly a kite! M-Kay.

Peut-être qu'on peut ajouter une antenne relais pour relier le réseau GSM avec le réseau lifi

what is 5.8 Nds in knots per hour?

@creekmiata

4 жыл бұрын

Nds is knots in french.

@msnpassjan2004

4 жыл бұрын

@@creekmiata Thanks !

Feeling like watching WATERWORLD now

Would be good on a little Laser or a scutter size thing tho

Is that the famed solar circumnavigator. Ship

@kittonsmitton

4 жыл бұрын

LOL!

Might I suggest BAT floating wind turbine? ... and just use the excess electricity for a larger battery bank.

needs a box kite trial. or a really large standard triangular kite. i built a 15 foot triangular kite. it lifted off extremely stable. i did not have the line for it. it sat on the side of 330 pelton. scrz

It’s like normal sailing but harder, slower, & more expensive! I like it👍

Y ese jueguecito para que sirve?

The kite needs to be at least 5 times that size. For a hull that big.

Green energy+ blue heart 💙 this is it man kind not priorities Wind 💨 🌬 headmost leading✅👍🐚

would like to see this in a stormy sea..................................

@user-dy2qq5wh4b

4 жыл бұрын

Stuart Brown Lol right? There’s no reefing on that is there! I bet you’d just have to pull it in when that weather was coming.

What's nds? Do you mean kts?

Be very careful that thing doesn't hit the water and you run over it. I'm assuming there is a rudder and a propeller from your solar electric motors. That could be very dangerous if things go wrong.

Herd of sea turtles would pull it faster.