Luisenweg 40, 20537, Hamburg, , Germany
SkySails Yacht GmbH was established in 2017 and draws upon 15 years of experience of its mother company Skysails Group which is renowned for its innovative towing-kite wind propulsion system for cargo vessels. Skysails Yacht installed its first kite system on board the 34m 100t catamaran “Race for Water” and demonstrated an impressive performance during their maiden voyage across the Atlantic to Bermuda.
Skysails Yacht is the market leader in fully automated towing kite systems for yachts. The kites autopilot driven dynamic flying pattern of a horizontal “figure 8” increases the towing force by factor 25.
The kite drive for Yachts provides many advantages:
- Range extension
- Reduction of fuel consumption
- Eco friendly
- Works as a powerful propulsion (8 knots without engine)
- Flies automated and fully integrated
- Keeps the yacht stable and therefore produces unrivalled cruising comfort
- Increases your safety, with an “eye in the sky” for anti piracy
- Gives you a high visibility and a positive image
A complete system consists of:
- The kite with towing rope and guiding/reefing line
- The control pod, steering the flight course of the kite, hanging underneath the line tree of the kite
- A powerful and fast towing winch, spooling hundreds of metres of towing rope
- A reefing winch to compress the kite after landing
- A starting / landing mast to de-reef and inflate the kite before start and to land it
- A sophisticated autopilot software and remote control