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RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Huge kite helps container ship across Atlantic

Did Kittredge have any success with that configuration?  I've only seen the one picture of it in calm water. Is he still working on it?

Regards,
Brent Hartwig


Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:06:43 -0800
From: psubs2001@yahoo.com
Subject: RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Huge kite helps container ship across Atlantic
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org

Kittredge put a sail on his UEM (Ultmate Exercise Machine) submersible.

Brent Hartwig <brenthartwig@hotmail.com> wrote:
These guys are doing it with a trimaran in Hawaii.  But I think they need a bigger kite that can be sent higher up that also has safety high pressure safety release strings.

http://www.kiteforsail.com/

Being able to sail a submarine has been a dream of mine since I started thinking about building one. But with all the rigging to make collapsible for diving, it didn't seem practical until I talked to the guy I bought my first snowboarding kite from and he said that one of the owners of the kite company that made my kite had a catamaran configured to use a kite to pull it.  My first ideas for a submarine were to acquire a old but solid built fiberglass sailboat and gut it's interior and install a pressure hull into it. Then make the rigging all collapsible.

Regards,
Brent Hartwig


From: BONDBURGER@aol.com
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:33:29 -0500
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Huge kite helps container ship across Atlantic
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org

In a message dated 1/29/2008 2:35:12 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, brenthartwig@hotmail.com writes:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22788488/from/ET/wid/18298287?gt1=10832
I kite surf and those kites have a lot of pull. I also saw some kids in the Dominican Repulic take an old catamaran and rig it with a kite instead of a sail and it seemed to work pretty well
 
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