Kiteboating

{{expand French|date=June 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2025}} thumb|An early (1984) experimental kite rig being used to pull a boat.

thumb|XTRAMARINE X-FUN electric inflatable catamaran configured as kiteboat

'''Kiteboating''', kite boating or kitesailing is the act of using a kite rig as a power source to propel a boat. Kiteboating is a type of surface water sport, but it also has transportation uses<ref name=Konrad>[http://www.vos.noaa.gov/MWL/apr_09/skysails.shtml Skysails], Captain John Konrad, Mariners Weather Log, April 2009, Volume 53, No. 1, National Weather Service</ref>

==Equipment== Kiteboating uses different types of gear from kitesurfing. Kites attached to boats can be larger than kites attached to a surfer. For long voyages, the kite rig must be more autonomously controlled. Due to the lifting power of kites, they are often used with hydrofoils.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20121219002348/http://www.thekiteboarder.com/2012/12/the-kiteboat-project/ The Kiteboat Project]}}, interview of Don Montague by Paul Lang, The Kiteboarder, 14 December 2012.</ref>

[[File:Buggy Winds.jpg|thumb|Points of sail (with a kite buggy)]] Current kite rigs can be sailed within 50 degrees of the wind.<ref name=Konrad/> Placing turbines in the boat's hull can let the kite power generate electricity on board.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.energykitesystems.net/ |title=Home |website=energykitesystems.net}}</ref>

==History== Going back to 1800s, George Pocock used the kites in order to increase the size of propel carts that are found in land and boats.{{citation needed|date=March 2017}} Sébastien Cattelan is the French kitesurfer was the first sailor who was able to break 50 knots, achieving 50.26 knots on 3 October 2008 at the Lüderitz Speed Challenge in Namibia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sail-world.com/Australia/New-World-Speed-Record-50-26-knots/49426 |title=New World Speed Record 50.26 knots |publisher=sail-world.com |date=4 October 2008 |access-date=10 February 2017}}</ref> Next, on 14 November 2009, Alex Caizergues achieved a speed of 50.98 knots in Namibia.{{fact|date=June 2024}}

== Patents == * US Patent [https://patents.google.com/patent/US6003457 6003457] Boat powered by means of a kite via a hinged arm by Pierre Chatelain. Filed:1 April 1998.

== See also == * Kite rig * Kite types * Kitesurfing * SkySails * Power kite

== References == {{Reflist}}

== External links == * [http://www.xtramatine.com/x-fun/ XTRAMARINE X-FUN inflatable catamaran which is also available as kiteboat] * [http://www.kiteboat.com/ Kiteboating enthusiast website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060509184506/http://kiteboat.com/ |date=9 May 2006 }} * [http://www.kitetender.com/ Kitetender] * [http://www.oceankiteboat.com/ Oceankiteboat] * [http://kitesurfingschool.org/Kiteboating.htm Beginners kiteboating] * [http://www.kite-boat-systems.com/index.php/en/ Wingit kiteboat systems]

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