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The Final - Kite Boat Atlantic Crossing

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Successful solo Atlantic crossing from Lisbon to
Martinique with a kite boat.
The 38-year-old Portuguese Francisco Luﬁnha has made it. Just in time
for Christmas, the adventurer reached the Caribbean island of
Martinique with his small boat pulled by kites after a total of 25 days at
sea. More on dreamsports.tv
#FranciscoLuﬁnha #KiteBoat #Atlanticcrossing

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20 авг 2024

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@bobgaysummerland 2 года назад

I’m a singlehanded sailor. No way would I attempt the kite boat. It would be like juggling pissed off cats. I bow to the master. Great job!!!

@LoanwordEggcorn 2 года назад

In principle, kite flying can be (and has been) automated. In practice, it may yet not be stable enough for long term use.

@blueishxx Год назад

lol truly amazing definitely a young man's game

@TheStuartstardust Год назад

@@LoanwordEggcorn ..but it always needs some wind, don't know if it's a problem in the big ocean..🧐🤓🤔 But nice with automatic while cruising 😎

@JustInvertedFpv Год назад

@@TheStuartstardust Any kind of sailing needs some wind. I sailed around the world when I was younger. When the wind dies you either just drift slowly until the wind picks up again or you run the motor if you have one. Most often though you just wait for the wind to pick up again as you'll have a limited amount of fuel to burn even if you have a motor. We mostly ran the engine just to charge our batteries and run the refrigerator/freezer. We only used the engine to move if we really had to.

@LoanwordEggcorn Год назад

@@JustInvertedFpv Intersting point of a kite is that it has access to potentially a lot more wind, particularly higher up. And as we know wind tends to be stronger higher, too. These days most cruisers have a lot of solar panels to power electrical house loads.

@inmyopinion6836 Год назад

Automated kite sailing for commercial shipping is the field to launch this amazing asset to the general sailing community. God speed to kite-sailing it is my love! ! !

@laprepper Год назад

That auto kite control is amazing!

@Nobody-cw4wm Год назад

…agreed! Lotta high tech stuff in there eh.

@pooboi8600 Год назад

How is this not more popular. This is like the new sailing

@SVPearler Год назад

$$$$$$ and complicated.

@cpobyrne1 Год назад

with a foiling boat he'd be across in a couple of days!!

@neilbroome4941 Год назад

Kites on a boat do not allow you to sail towards the wind, this makes them of limited use unless you are on a trade wind route going one way.

@FullCircleTravis Год назад

@Neil Broome You can sail into the wind with a kite. Not as efficiently.

@neilbroome4941 Год назад

@@FullCircleTravis there is always one isn't there. The original comment was that the person did not know why kites weren't used more on sailing boats. I think I made my point.

@briancunningham2250 4 месяца назад

A brilliant achievement which deserved much more recognition than it got. Belated congratulations!👏

@sharpsticksnz4112 2 года назад

I can't believe I'm the first to comment. This guy is a legend! Well done my friend I hope the future is bright for you and the world catches up with how amazing this is. Way to make your own luck Francisco!

@kailaniandi Год назад

About twenty years ago I thought about doing something very similar. I told quite a few people and they thought I was crazy lol. No there are several different types of kite boat. Looking forward to seeing how these evolve in the future

@wailinburnin 3 месяца назад

Sailors talking, one says “You think sailing across the sea is scary, you should try it in a power boat” [meaning mast and sails are reliable, fixable, and uncomplicated, engines have so many things that can go wrong]. A truly brave and/or naïve soul sets out across the ocean in a kite boat like this one, bravo to you, I would think a slightly heavier boat with a mast, a bit slower of course, but kite rigged might be really fun to live on, be like, “great to be here” not, “get in, get in, get in”). I like challenges and racing to see how fast you can do it, but the next step is choosing the most noninvasive cruising experience. A kite and an electric auxiliary could be cool.

@c.l.3806 5 месяцев назад

Kites are by far the best sails out there atm. You get sails in 100 meter height. And a little kite sail got more effective square meters to catch the wind than one might think. Cause it is able to move around. So more Wind Energy by area is harvested. You could even use a kite ship as an Electricity Generator. If you combine it with a water turbine.

@simiken1234 4 месяца назад

It doesn't even have to be combined with a water turbine, it can be on land. Check out kitepower for example :)

@johnh539 3 месяца назад

Actually traditional yacht's have a sail not dissimilar to a kite called spinnaker sails, they are often diploid in races along with "goose winging" your other sails particularly when running with the wind.

@StrawberryGarcia Год назад

Boy that control system doesn’t look complicated at all

@starofdavid9919 2 года назад

We have only scratched the surface regarding wind,wave and solar power. I see the future being bountiful and very environmentally friendly.

@fjb4932 4 месяца назад

starofdavid, I click only because the smartest man i've Ever met used that term, " we have only scratched the surface". There is immeasurably more we don't know, than do know. ☆

@carsonc1272 Год назад

That hand pump water maker is pretty cool. It's probably too expensive, but wouldn't it be neat to include one with every life raft?

@dalesmth1 Год назад

I sold mine a couple years ago. It was military surplus, but it was serviced properly, and worked great. Wish I could remember the brand name, but they are fairly common. In good used condition, they sell for $200-350.

@carsonc1272 Год назад

@@dalesmth1 Well that's a very affordable piece of insurance then.

@joeldumas5861 Год назад

It's the well known Survivor 35 by Katadyn. It had been around for decades. It might be around 2500 € brand new.

@rodparker6530 4 месяца назад

I’m here for this comment. Nice. Have searched through the second hand ones. A cheap insurance yes but after the conversion rate and freight. I might have to try a different hobby

@ASDRONEDOC Год назад

It was hard enough to do in a sailing yacht as part of a team. Kudos my brother!

@chrisleggatt3240 Год назад

This is so cool, I learned to sail a kite before a boat, it must be a different world to sail like this

@CC-kt2hm Год назад

I dreamed about this so many years ago and it’s like seeing my dream come true

@lockhughes Год назад

Wait'll somebuddy mentions hydrofoils to Francisco ... lift hulls above water and hull surface friction drag drops 800x% from water to air .. ;)

@florinadrian5174 4 месяца назад

An no more water in the battery compartment.

@yanikivanov Год назад

Dude thats craziest idea crossing Atlantic with this...man you saved 1000 bucks on airplane ticket good job

@GuyIncognito764 4 месяца назад

Whoosh!

@tomhamilton7726 Год назад

Outstanding! Well done.

@Kltpzyxm17 Год назад

1:20 That's a juvenille Leatherback turtle. Rare.

@cameddy4081 4 месяца назад

Outstanding!!!! Great adventure, amazing skills and courage - freakin brilliant stuff 🙏🙏🙏🌏

@andrewkinsey8754 3 месяца назад

well done, great achievement

@davecole6795 3 месяца назад

Be interesting if it could be made into a small portable deck mounted back up unit for conventional yachts, in case of demasting, just a small kite and control unit that you can pull out from storage and bolt on and plug in to limp you to the nearest port!

@vincentmolloy5660 Год назад

Well done mate. 👏

@123boat Год назад

Fantastic. Top man 👏👏👏👏

@number1genoa Год назад

Fantastic ,somewhere, sometime they will fuse kites, foils and auto ride control to create a new kind of sailing cargo carrier😅😅

@Nobody-cw4wm Год назад

Sailing! Take it to the next level & strap a few big kites on a cruise ship…keeping it green!

@diGritz1 Год назад

Turtle be like, hey guy sweet kite. How about you hook me up with one.

@himmeldrachen1 2 года назад

Francisco great achievment. How long did it take? It would be a Portuguese to do this first!

@KuschallRacing Год назад

this needs biiiiig currage...........very impressive, pushing willpower to new levals, GREAT

@kuhniberti 3 месяца назад

Imagine Battle of Trafalgar with kite-driven ships of the line (pun intended).

@denislemelin7653 Год назад

Seems like a pretty risky thing to do, so many things could go south really fast ! Good luck !!!

@zeev 2 года назад

this is amazing. i was wondering why someone hadn't done this solo yet. a million sheep are rowing across the atlantic like transatlantic slaves, but no one kited across. it's the creative thoughtful and ambitious people that blaze the new path and the rest slowly that follow. that said, i'm still not convinced kiting for small boats will get popular until some sort of auto-sailer can be made reliably for kites. everything of the past 10 years says that autosailers do exist , yes, but they are very expensive , not reliable let alone standardizeable in the near future, and quite likely dangerous for small boats as opposed to larger ones. kites might simply be exposed to excessively high wind loads and wind variance at higher altitutde. the flips side of the attraction..... to want all that power. but can you handle it!? looks like francisco did. but he's not your average sailor.... in my mind i was thinking perhaps the solution to automating kite sailing is a lighter than air bouyant kite ( patents exists) that also has powered small drone style propellers on it powered by cables running up the kite lines. the propellers simply ensure the kite is being pulled in the proper direction ( forget steering by line) ---and the bouyancy ensures the kite is always floating at a consistent point regardless of its prior operating position. it seems the continuous swooping of the kites is part of the dynamic instability which makes them able to sweep so much wind and get so much power, but also makes them prone to unstable control accidents. one way to remedy this is to make them slow and dumb by inflating them with a bouyant gas. but then that creates new problems.....eh.

@LoanwordEggcorn 2 года назад

Agree. Every design has pros and cons, and better automation and more development are needed to make kite power more widespread.

@markusbroyles1884 Год назад

Modern Kites are a miracle of precision crafting and computer design and lots of research trial and error. The sport of Kitesurfing has led us to these miracles of technology. YOU Zeev need to get a lesson flying kites with your local kitesurfer to understand the dynamic of the kites. You sound like me before I knew about it, very clever but not understanding certain things only lessons and familiarization with the equipment can give you ~

@joeldumas5861 Год назад

In 1995 in Canarias, while we were preparing our family ketch for our Atlantic crossing, sailor Nicole Van De Kerchove (intentionally) demasted her JOD 24 and set her with kites (simply controlled by JOD's genoa winches). Beyond performance, Nicole's idea was to promote kites as emergency devices for (unintentionally) demasted yachts. I don't know if there has been other solo ocean passages powered by kites

@richardaragon1391 Год назад

Kevin Costner use this technique in waterworld

@KorayU. 4 месяца назад

Multihull tekneler için, tekneye kuvvet uyguladığı nokta itibariyle, multihull tekneler için yelkenden çok daha güvenli ve verimle görünüyor. 👌

@danielswords3969 Год назад

Exactly - how can this not be more popular. Why are kites not also used instead of a spinnaker on normal sail boats?

@csgarage3682 4 месяца назад

Meus parabens pelo excelente video, desde o Brasil !

@fredtatch1572 4 месяца назад

Amazing! Did you have radar and autopilot for night? Glad you made a safe trip 🎉

@duelette Год назад

Great job incredible achievement!

@vinm300 4 месяца назад

Amazing

@chrisc9611 4 месяца назад

This seems to be far more efficient than sails, and it avoids the heeling over.

@glike2 Год назад

This setup can go faster than wind DOWNWIND, in theory!

@dominictarrsailing Год назад

Hmm, it seems like his boat must go really fast, there is the bit where he lost the mid size sails and is having to make do with the 7m one and only(!) going 12 knots! but the total distance from lisbon to martinique is 3200 nm, which in 25 days is only a 128 mile average. That's only 5.34 knots average speed. Which is good, but a fast monohull could do that! I really want to watch a much longer video that showed all the trials and tribulations of this crossing. 3 minutes is just not enough to answer all my questions

@JohnUsp Год назад

They are trying to use this technique on big cargo ships.

@wingsurfcamp8240 2 года назад

Awesome!

@johnwallace5892 4 месяца назад

Amazing!!!

@loiklamb8067 Год назад

Whaou La pêche le marin volant Bravo

@ericd7975 Год назад

Great effort

@jeffswope1511 Год назад

Amazing well done

@Pays2Win 3 месяца назад

Never even heard of such a thing.

@Carsten-Berlin-Wi Год назад

Wow reallye innovative!

@johnmacmillan627 Год назад

Wow! Very impressive. Did you have to do much upwind sailing? What was your course? How long did your voyage take? Hats off to you!

@neilt.i.w737 Год назад

WOW. Respect!

@caveman1334 Год назад

Wow!!!!!❤❤❤❤

@leobard7767 4 месяца назад

Be nice to see some vetted polars on a kite setup like this in order to have actual facts to discuss. Anyone have a good source for them, they seem hard to find at this point?

@alaskawilliam1 4 месяца назад

Stack your sails if you want more power. Easy as RW (relative work)

@barryholiday8998 Год назад

Very cool

@justdoingitjim7095 Год назад

What about using the kinetic energy of the waves to create some kind of force to propel the boat?

@E3ECO 4 месяца назад

Everything old is new again. I daresay Columbus would have a comment or two.

@podocrypto6072 4 месяца назад

Cray cray....

@ciberbri59 4 месяца назад

incrivel.

@richardleetbluesharmonicac7192 Год назад

F’ ing cool !!!

@terrulian 4 месяца назад

Can the boat sail itself and adjust course and kites while unattended?

@carsonc1272 Год назад

Why don't we ever see anyone stacking multiple kites on the same line? Of course I've opened myself up to all of the know it all's on RU-vid with this question. Please only answer if you really do know it all.

@dominictarrsailing Год назад

They used to do this back in the 19th century, for meterological observations, before they switched to using balloons. The best strength/weight ratio line they had was steel wire. They could fly kites up to 30,000 feet apparently! but they couldn't fly one kite up there on it's own, because the line would break under it's own weight. So, they'd put a train of kites up, the second one holding supporting the line for the first, the third supporting the line for the second etc... Now days we have much stronger materials such as UHMWPE, and people have successfully flown a single line kite that high! But you are probably thinking about having a line of traction kites so that you can reef the sail by landing some etc (somewhat like a cutter rig). That I don't know. Maybe just because it's more complicated and the need has not arisen because most people arn't crazy enough to kite across an ocean!

@carsonc1272 Год назад

@@dominictarrsailing 30k feet is pretty impressive.

@dominictarrsailing Год назад

@@carsonc1272 forget this trade wind sailing, you could be sailing in the jet stream!

@carsonc1272 Год назад

@@dominictarrsailing That's not real far off of my thinking actually. The idea I've had for over a decade consists of reducing a rig down to the absolute minimum. So there would be a foil in the water, a fairing for the rope until it comes out of the water, and a stack of hang gliders on the other end. The pilot would control the direction of foil travel from way up in the stack of hang gliders but the foil would regulate its own depth. Electricity to move the foil control surfaces would be from a small turbine. Electricity for the electronics in the hang gliders would be made from some solar panels. I think a person in this rig could beat the trans-atlantic crossing record by a factor of 2x.

@dominictarrsailing Год назад

@@carsonc1272 how do you figure 2x? hmm, current record is Banque Populaire V 3d15h25m45s, average speed 32.94 knots. to double that you'd need to go about 66 knots. That would mean going about the same speed as Vestas Sailrocket 2's record, the whole way across the Atlantic. I guess one advantage of being able to sail very very fast is it greatly reduces the uncertainty in choosing the weather window. You'd just need strong winds in the correct direction for 2 days. VS2's speed is limited because the downfoil starts to cavitate, so you really need a drastically different design to go faster than that. There are teams currently working on building on what VS2 achived, and hope to go 80 knots. They are still planning to have the pod containing the human(s) (lets call it the cockpit) skim on the surface, which isn't as cool as suspending it from the kite. That is fine for a drag race on a carefully chosen course with flat water and strong winds, but would probably be too bumpy in real ocean conditions! however what you are proposing is basically how VS2 works, but just get rid of all the fuselage boat crap that's gonna hit the waves and slow you down. So I think 2x is crazy, yet reasonable.

@sailservice24 Год назад

❤👌👌👌

@JamesCsezer 2 года назад

Challenging adventure, great job....I have a 34 foot trawler with fly. do you think we could handle Atlantic crossing with wing it... What would be the challenges

@will5989 Год назад

How would you tack with a kite?

@joeldumas5861 Год назад

If your trawler is high sea worthy, and since the Atlantic crossing in the trades is mainly downwind, you might consider the kites as a nice fuel saving system the days of plain downwind (or close to) Don't forget you have no fin keel, no daggerboard... so no upwind, not even beam reach. And of course have enough fuel, just in case...

@zerofox7347 Год назад

Is there no way of getting the kite flying on an auto pilot system?

@vanessabryan786 Год назад

Yes but it takes a lot of calibration if you swap kites and increase line. Not impossible but probably easier run from a lap top and steered from a mono line with a controlled steering head.