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The SkySails-System was successfully placed into operation aboard Germany's largest fishing vessel – the ROS-171 "Maartje Theadora" – on the North Sea near Ijmuiden, the Netherlands on March 8th, 2010.
39 windsurfers and kiters from all over the South Island descended on Glenorchy on Saturday 27th Feb. for the Southern Lakes Windriders Club’s annual downwinder sail from Glenorchy to Pigeon Island.
A 38-year-old kiteboarder has died after being attacked by several sharks off the coast of Florida near Stuart Beach.
There are precious few spots on the globe where wind, water, and land combine to provide flawless conditions for windsurfing and kiteboarding.
The final day of the 2010 La Ventana Classic and KiteXpo was a huge one! The day began with an early 25-30 knot El Norte Wind that wiped away all bad memories of the light wind earlier in the week.
Diederik Parlevliet, the Chief Executive Officer of Parlevliet & Van der Plas B.V., one of the largest European fishing companies with headquarters in Katwijk in the Netherlands, and Stephan Wrage, the Managing Director of SkySails, signed a purchase agreement for the world’s first towing-kite wind propulsion system to be installed on a fishing trawler.