North Atlantic in a Bosun Dinghy

Yeah, the boat's meant to be self righting but strong point for the sea anchor snapped apparently, and it capsized 9 times and didn't right the ninth time. Doesn't sound like much fun! There's some stuff on his website about it.

That is one weird way of sailing... looks veeeeeery peculiar.

I read a report on these things, they are quite efficient and because they are higher up they get stonger, more steady wind.  They will go to windward and the angles are comparable to current sloop rigs, and they difinately will get a boat on the plane!  the final benefit is that they lift the bow of the boat when going downwind, instead of always trying to pull the mast over the bow and nosedive.  For those interested the main company developing these is www.kiteship.com

Using kites on the race course would be really dangerous, could you image the tangles with lots of boats coming into the bottom mark with kites flying?! I wouldn't want to be the insurance company after a mix-up there.  They may well be more efficient but for racing they are not feasable, apart from possibly match racing.  Oracle looked into them for the last AC but both mothballed the project once they found out no-one else was going to use them. 

that kite instead of spinny is soooo cool when will we see one of the development classes try one?