G'day,
A windsurfer style kite would fly from the lee hull as you say. No
trouble shunting.
An Outleader would fly from the front beam as it needs ddw to launch
(I am working on this). Dave flies Outleaders to 90 apparent, I am
not quite that good. 120 is very easy to achieve. As Outleaders
are all lift and pull, you could easily sail one with the windward
hull to leeward.
regards,
Rob
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Robert <cateran1949@
> I was looking at the practicalities of shunting down wind with a
> Harryproa. If just relying on a reasonably high performance kite
> attached to the shorter, heavier hull (normally the ww hull when using
> a stick rig), then it would shunt just like a kite board and not be
> too much of a problem (unless you grossly overpowered it and lifted
> the whole boat out of the water like a sail rocket!) In a strong wind,
> near wind speed is more than fast enough and just set it off the front
> crossbeam to drag you down wind and go and have a cup of coffee. The
> boat is probably too slippery to set a kite off the front crossbeam in
> light conditions unless you have a drogue to give the kite enough
> apparent wind to keep it aloft. Have to find out what angle of
> apparent wind the outleaders sail in. A bit of angle in hand if good
> on the wind shifts
>
>
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