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Re:Kite Plans by semi-extrinsic on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @03:14PM (#19984461)
There was a company out of San Francisco some years back that built several versions of an auto-foiling kite powered trimaran. It looked really cool.

https://youtu.be/1QzT_PBLSXo

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Re:Kite Plans by contingencies on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @07:21PM (#19986670)
37knots 12-18 knots of wind

Wow. I couldn't get over how flat the thing sat in the water... no heeling at all. I guess that is a joint property of removing the mast (ie. reducing unnecessary vertical offset prior to thrust distribution across the hull) plus curved foils / mini-keels visible a the start and end of the video. Impressive stability given the low profile in the water.

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Re:Kite Plans by semi-extrinsic on Saturday May 25, 2019 @03:44PM (#20010901)
Yeah, I'm curious why these are not more widespread. Maybe it's not as "cool" when it doesn't heel? And probably not possible to run in any regattas with that kite.
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