Comments on: Nereus, kite-powered water craft concept

By: avatar yapma

avatar yapma — Sat, 09 May 2009 21:13:28 +0000

it looks cool.

By: jose

jose — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:32:40 +0000

dear Ben if i were u will try this thing, it seems like there’s no way to go up wind but it does and it does it really good ……its not as eficient as a kiteboard but aparently when u get used to it is much easyer,.. i saw some guys testing a promodel which isnt the one in the picture and this shit is really fun. saludos.

By: lauren

lauren — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:24:38 +0000

I would so buy this if i had money and i lived on the beach!
This is awsome!
Most excellent~*

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:29:07 +0000

Looks really cool. Has a couple fatal design flaws though. The main one is that the designer obviously has never had any exposure to kite surfing. When you kite surf (or sail kite powered Catamarans as I did in Maui), the kite doesn’t pull you forward (downwind), it pulls downwind, but your direction of motion is crosswind. This craft is set up to pull pretty much straight downwind. This means you can’t tack (sail upwind) and the kite will fall out of the sky.

Also, in order to generate power in the kite, you need to be able to fly a sine wave pattern. Since the handlebars are connected directly to the power lines (90% of the kites pull) as well as the steering lines, you would not be able to control the kite at all.

By: Alex Ion

Alex Ion — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:58:57 +0000

Ya, Brad we’re definitely disappointed ourselves because it may never take off. Wouldn’t you try it though? At least to rent one while on a vacation on the beach

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:07:48 +0000

It looks pretty cool. I’m thinking this will only be one of those concepts that never really take off. Like the Segway

By: Girl Names

Girl Names — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:50:43 +0000

waw,this invention would be awesome.
i would like one of this