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by spork
Fri Jun 28, 2019 7:53 pm
Forum: Kitesurfing
Topic: Downwind Faster Than The Wind - update
Replies: 344
Views: 51705

Re: Downwind Faster Than The Wind - update

ooooooooh! so funny thing, I always thought it was the propeller that turned the wheels, up to a certain point and then at that point the wheels would turn the propeller Interestingly we have run the vehicle in two modes - upwind and downwind. In the downwind mode the propeller is *always* a propel...
by spork
Fri Jun 28, 2019 6:52 am
Forum: Kitesurfing
Topic: Downwind Faster Than The Wind - update
Replies: 344
Views: 51705

Re: Downwind Faster Than The Wind - update

Thanks!
by spork
Fri Jun 28, 2019 4:39 am
Forum: Kitesurfing
Topic: Downwind Faster Than The Wind - update
Replies: 344
Views: 51705

Re: Downwind Faster Than The Wind - update

Are the physics behind it explained somewhere in this thread? No, but if you have a couple of hours to waste on a really boring video, you can watch me try to explain it at the St. Francis Yacht Club... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6oJpnSJyV8 I understand that when you are going the same speed ...
by spork
Thu Jun 27, 2019 9:07 pm
Forum: Kitesurfing
Topic: Downwind Faster Than The Wind - update
Replies: 344
Views: 51705

Re: Downwind Faster Than The Wind - update

Wait, they actually told you who built it that you do not understand how it works??? :o Yup. That was a pretty common claim. Of course, it's your fault that you did not explain so they could understand. :lol::lol::lol: That is too funny. Indeed. They would tell me I either understood it wrong, or w...
by spork
Thu Jun 27, 2019 7:39 pm
Forum: Kitesurfing
Topic: Downwind Faster Than The Wind - update
Replies: 344
Views: 51705

Re: Downwind Faster Than The Wind - update

I am willing to bet that people getting so thoroughly owned are still living happily in their oblivious world of fake news thinking they won that exchange too. Interestingly, I think almost all of the folks that insulted us and insisted we were wrong, now accept that it's possible. Very few of them...
by spork
Thu Jun 27, 2019 6:05 pm
Forum: Kitesurfing
Topic: Downwind Faster Than The Wind - update
Replies: 344
Views: 51705

Re: Downwind Faster Than The Wind - update

>> You never got the money from the guys that were betting with you right?

Nope.
by spork
Thu Jun 27, 2019 5:01 pm
Forum: Kitesurfing
Topic: Downwind Faster Than The Wind - update
Replies: 344
Views: 51705

Re: Downwind Faster Than The Wind - update

Long lines won't solve the straight downwind problem. The problem is that, to go directly downwind faster than the wind, you have to make the wind work against the water in the downwind direction.
by spork
Tue Apr 03, 2018 5:22 pm
Forum: Hydrofoil
Topic: Chinese KB Hydrofoil : 300 USD + shipment
Replies: 378
Views: 109292

Re: Chinese KB Hydrofoil : 300 USD + shipment

Craz Z wrote:
Tue Apr 03, 2018 3:48 pm
It is an advanced wing so it maybe harder to ride for novice intermediate foilers.
I rode that foil last season briefly. I didn't find it difficult to ride.
by spork
Sun Dec 17, 2017 2:17 am
Forum: Hydrofoil
Topic: Chinese KB Hydrofoil : 300 USD + shipment
Replies: 378
Views: 109292

Re: Chinese KB Hydrofoil : 300 USD + shipment

But prior art doesn't keep people from making and selling stuff. It just keeps them from patenting it.
by spork
Sat Dec 16, 2017 4:19 pm
Forum: Hydrofoil
Topic: Chinese KB Hydrofoil : 300 USD + shipment
Replies: 378
Views: 109292

Re: Chinese KB Hydrofoil : 300 USD + shipment

>> Create a 'design patent' and claim a different look....MUCH cheaper too.... Sure - if you have a specific look you can file a design patent for that specific look, but... 1) It will protect *only* that specific look. It doesn't prevent anyone from making the same product with any other look. 2) T...

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