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I don't see any reason to bother penetrating the pressure hull to control it internally. A long range submarine can be designed with a flat deck from which to fly the kite. And for rough weather, I expect most submarines would dive below the wave action anyhow. I personally favor the freedom that sails offer, and would love to be able to apply that to a submarine. Such options to date are un-stepping a conventional mast, submerged sailing through bouyancy control, and now kites. Since the kite technolgy is progressing faster than I expected, this is of interest to me. It possibly offers small storage space inside the pressure hull(no mast and sail strapped to the outside of the submarine). Underwater sailing(using bouyancy) halves the living space of a comparably sized sailboat; since kites are used on the surface, you are free to use the submarine's deck while underway. With the way that I would use a live-a-board submarine, however, I would just dump the sail storage area and add a hundred gallons of fuel oil. I'll just wait and see how this technology developes. regards, Shin From: brenthartwig@hotmail.com To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Sailing Loggerhead at 20 Knots Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:42:47 -0700 Steve, You know we might be able to figure out how to attach a towing kite system like in the below links, but control it internally with a double external wench system. The size kites we could use are already commercially available, in stock sizes. Most days you might even need to turn on the motor at all. Even better yet I would get to use your sub as the guinea pig before I design and install the towing kite system on my live aboard sub. ;)' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf-uPNnkEIw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbyX4mkfjfo BOW CHIKKA WOOWW WOWW !!!!! Brent Get thousands of games on your PC, your mobile phone, and the web with Windows®. Game with Windows |