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@weroliera
June 15, 2025 at 9:04 am
Look like that x men ship 👍
@heretikpapy
June 15, 2025 at 3:24 pm
Yeah and Klingons Spaceships from StarTrek…
@lasarith2
June 15, 2025 at 9:11 am
Well they could always use it for very quick speedy delivery options.
@ianosf
June 15, 2025 at 9:56 am
Looks like eve online Condor
@Chuckh116
June 15, 2025 at 10:25 am
Random meeting fellow Eve nerds here
@lasarith2
June 15, 2025 at 12:50 pm
1:02 since the Ai misspelled it ~ Trimaran
@nasty-booger
June 15, 2025 at 1:03 pm
That foil is also the optimal shape for propeller blades.
@petegarnett7731
June 16, 2025 at 9:59 am
Your name matches your lack of knowledge of propellor dynamics.
@nasty-booger
June 16, 2025 at 2:33 pm
The rudder foil is the same shape and concept as our nuke submarines propellers. low noise and drag, high functioning efficient foil able to bleed off the boiling that occurs.
@heretikpapy
June 15, 2025 at 3:22 pm
Star Trek style ! Love it ! Love the concept ! Next step… making it a hydrofoil. By staying over the water, it will reach a greater speed. Why it is not already that?
@guygillmore2970
June 16, 2025 at 3:17 am
It goes too fast for hydrofoils. The top surface cavitates at high speeds, ruining the effect
@mm74forums7
June 16, 2025 at 9:22 am
Resistance of HF grows faster with speed than the resistance of a planing hulls. Also for such speeds it needs to use a cavitating/ventilating HFs. These can be quite unstable on rippled see surface.
@skyak4493
June 16, 2025 at 12:57 pm
Hydrofoils get lift primarily from suction on the leeward side. At these speeds (over 50mph) that suction preasure is so low the water boils and then the bubbles collapse, damaging the foil surface. On this craft, the leward side of the foil is just an air bubble. Being just one face deflecting fluid it has no lift advantage over a planing hull.
The other point is that the air foil is pulling so hard upward that the water foil needs to pull downward to keep it in the water. There is no need for hydrofoils to lift the craft out of the water, just adjust the water foil angle to not pull down as hard. The “hulls” are mearly to help control the water foil position relative to the surface. The way this craft fails is by getting too high in the water resulting in insuficient downforce from the water foil. The craft will fly away dangling from it’s kite accelerating leeward until the kite loses lift.
@DanH-u3f
June 16, 2025 at 4:37 am
This technology can also propel leisure boats and save a lot of fuel.
@BeverlySeverence
June 16, 2025 at 12:24 pm
Try taking your family out boating for the day on one of these flying machines. First, they’d be terrified, second, their picnic lunch would blow out of their hands.
@rachid8044
June 16, 2025 at 8:43 am
FANTASTIC !!! CONGRATULATIONS !!!!
@JohnAltenburg
June 16, 2025 at 8:57 am
When I see rich kids driving a boat with 4 motors, I see it as disgusting. But when I see this type of power, I have full respect.
@BeverlySeverence
June 16, 2025 at 12:26 pm
This boat likely used more fossil fuel for development than a 4 motor outboard would use in 5 years.
@speedboard.
June 16, 2025 at 4:57 pm
@@BeverlySeverence what, to power the computers? Don’t be ridiculous.
@brandonthomas6862
June 16, 2025 at 5:01 pm
@@BeverlySeverence don’t hand wave stuff like this. If you’re gonna say it back it up. This is almost certainly not true. Or even close. This is like when people say EVs are worse for the environment when very demonstrably they are not. The initial embodied carbon might be but you run it for any amount of time and it quickly changes. And that’s also not a flat comparison since the equation changes a ton based on mining tech, and power sources for the EV.
@BeverlySeverence
June 16, 2025 at 6:15 pm
@@brandonthomas6862Brainwashed. Try using this technology for a regular boat. It’s a terrifying machine for one. Secondly, where do you seat the kids and mother in law? And, anchors, life jackets, radios, radar, antenna, linesman fenders, and a pickup truck full of stuff just to satisfy Coast regs, weather needs, and human accommodations. You know nothing about boating. But, it looks like a cool extreme sport if fully developed. I’ll wave my hand as I drive by in my outboard when you’ve capsized your kite boat. Saving energy? You’ll be towed by motor boat weekly in that piece of unseaworthy plastic.
@eliasrodriquez6798
June 16, 2025 at 6:30 pm
Groooooan😞
@NewMateo
June 16, 2025 at 10:44 am
God I wish I was rich enough to spend my spare time boat racing.
@SkadooHusky
June 16, 2025 at 10:45 am
I’ve thought about doing this with a kayak on a big lake
@MichaelWallace-g9r
June 16, 2025 at 2:09 pm
Already going on. Kayak with pontoons boosted along with a kite.
@evolution4ward923
June 16, 2025 at 11:48 am
SR-61 style nose…. looks very cool.
@stevecopenhaver6152
June 16, 2025 at 3:00 pm
71…
@stefanoballiero8319
June 16, 2025 at 11:50 am
wow 🤯
@georgepeat5269iearth
June 16, 2025 at 1:05 pm
Beside speed which there is always a need, what will the technology provide for the future of humanity and so forth I guess that’s not always the case but we do need some things done better. Very cool regardless.
@MichaelWallace-g9r
June 16, 2025 at 2:06 pm
Not hulls. Potoons
@James-un7gv
June 16, 2025 at 4:07 pm
That will never be faster than the America cup designs
@titter3648
June 16, 2025 at 4:47 pm
Yes it will be way faster. The “sail” is higher in the air avoiding the wind gradient down by the water. It has way less aerodynamic drag. It has a lot more righting moment so it is able to take more force from the “sail”.
@vercopolis
June 16, 2025 at 6:43 pm
Living in the past
@mk1st
June 16, 2025 at 7:16 pm
It’s designed for straight line sailing so will spank those (still very fast) boats in one direction, just don’t ask it to tack.
@MillicentSquirrelHole
June 16, 2025 at 4:16 pm
The SP8O’s big bro’..SF8000 (SuperFast Eight) ..is a twin jet aircraft..currently testing in AREA 51..’nuff said..single and unmanned amphib/ekronoplan configured…
@Fester_
June 16, 2025 at 4:39 pm
F-16 cockpit canopy. Year after year programs like that go on & on about having an aircraft canopy cockpit for protection. Maybe a Dassault Rafale cockpit ? Good luck with that you crazy little French people. May I say’ little ‘ in 2025 ?
@David-h1i8s
June 16, 2025 at 4:51 pm
cool
@fabiofintini2788
June 16, 2025 at 5:24 pm
Really great 🙂 this means the uman minds never stop
@mariebaxter473
June 16, 2025 at 5:59 pm
Canardly believe my eyes 🤣
@johnmooney9444
June 16, 2025 at 6:03 pm
Good luck gentlemen.
@GroovyVideo2
June 16, 2025 at 6:42 pm
Nice
@TomCrockett-bl1gp
June 16, 2025 at 7:13 pm
Looks like a Klingon bird of prey.
@easternyellowjacket276
June 16, 2025 at 8:21 pm
Why is the clown in the boat wearing a fighter jet helmet with an oxygen mask?
@BarryWeston-c8c4y
June 16, 2025 at 9:06 pm
I’d like a closer look at sail/ rigging.
@robertvictor5361
June 17, 2025 at 1:47 am
Y tho?
@sp80record
June 17, 2025 at 3:11 am
Thank you Jesse for sharing our journey 🫶
@AggarwalPranshu
June 17, 2025 at 3:32 am
SR-71 of the Seas I see
@viewsthatfade
June 17, 2025 at 3:45 am
I had to ask Chatgpt why they are wearing masks in a sailboat and this is why.
The reason the person is wearing a full oxygen mask and helmet in the SP80 boat is because the craft reaches extremely high speeds—over 80 knots (approximately 150 km/h or 93 mph)—which creates very high aerodynamic forces.
🛡 1. Protection Against High-Speed Wind Forces
At those speeds:
The wind pressure is intense, even inside a semi-enclosed cockpit.
A standard helmet wouldn’t protect adequately against sudden impacts or forces on the head and neck.
A face mask helps prevent wind-induced breathing difficulty and debris inhalation.
🌬 2. Oxygen Supply
The oxygen mask is likely used to:
Provide pressurized air or oxygen to assist breathing during high G-forces or intense physical stress.
It may also help simulate aeronautical safety systems, considering the boat mimics a jet fighter cockpit in layout and speed dynamics.
👨✈ 3. Aviation-Style Safety Integration
The SP80 boat is highly engineered and inspired by aerospace technology:
The helmet design and harness system resemble that of a fighter jet.
The driver (or pilot) endures extreme acceleration, wind buffeting, and sudden directional changes, necessitating such protective gear.
@print4apet
June 17, 2025 at 10:08 am
An the rest of us can’t ask as well, nice way to waste space.
@annoyedok321
June 17, 2025 at 12:47 pm
So ChatGpt Googled the question for you? I guess that’s better than using Bing.
Here’s a simpler answer. You’re in a confined space surrounded by the ocean doing something dangerous. You want a source of bottled air.
@deppjones2682
June 17, 2025 at 5:16 pm
Have you ever been thinking about pilots on a motorbike or on a formula one race car? 😂😂😂
@JamesWhite-yj7sd
June 17, 2025 at 5:22 am
It’s a kite boat not a sail boat
@RemedyRob69
June 17, 2025 at 7:33 am
Garlic ‘knots’ for you hungry Italian land lovers.
@LemonOne
June 17, 2025 at 8:39 am
how does is go back when the wind is blowing front?
@marcloustalot9283
June 17, 2025 at 9:08 am
Il n’est pas PROPULSE mais TRACTE …
@douglasolsson7768
June 17, 2025 at 9:11 am
The fastest I have kited on a twin tip board is 38 MPH. Not sure what that is in KPH.
@chrishill5511
June 17, 2025 at 2:01 pm
That sort of unit conversion is too difficult for modern computers.
@the_grand_tourer
June 17, 2025 at 9:27 am
Is this for 10 year olds? Loads of factual inaccuracies and invented words. I’m off to find the teams own channel and blocking this one.
@print4apet
June 17, 2025 at 10:05 am
Adios KooK !
@Wayzor_
June 17, 2025 at 12:15 pm
It looks like a Bird Of Prey
@myaccount__7269
June 17, 2025 at 3:22 pm
Initiating cloak
@angelmatos9143
June 17, 2025 at 12:51 pm
SR-71 Blackbird inspired. (never a bad thing) 😎
@poopertrooperz
June 17, 2025 at 1:04 pm
J’ mapelle croissant
@SeymourButts-k2j
June 17, 2025 at 1:33 pm
The world’s fastest kite.
@foresthobo1166
June 17, 2025 at 1:44 pm
Wow, amazing rig. Real cool they are working on the cavitation problems for foils. Super job!
@JohnJohansen2
June 17, 2025 at 3:14 pm
Most “land lovers” use the metric system!
@JbirdFlytClub
June 17, 2025 at 8:47 pm
It’s about time you all change. Join us and quit fighting it. In all aspects of life.
@sylvainfuser6319
June 17, 2025 at 3:20 pm
Should have mentioned the EPFL in your video
@Canigetanawwwwyyyyeeeah
June 17, 2025 at 3:28 pm
Feel like they just watched water world…
@robohippy
June 17, 2025 at 3:38 pm
I did see a clip about this a while ago, and find the concept fascinating! Watching this clip, I was wondering about how long before some one takes this idea to the Booneville Salt Flats to set a land record. I had figured that the next record would involve a more rigid wing design, similar to the modern aluminum tube framed hang gliders. Never considered the paraglider type wing. I remember the early ones and they were very slow. I guess they have come a long way too. I am curious if the wing you guys are using is a lot stiffer than the usual wings??? I flew a traditional hang glider up until about 1983.The double surface gliders were just coming out.
@zelectron1
June 17, 2025 at 4:26 pm
avec des foils ça irait bien mieux with foils it would be much better
@markw999
June 17, 2025 at 4:46 pm
Is that an oxygen mask? Really? Hmmmm.
@loonateer
June 17, 2025 at 4:49 pm
CEO and Pilot. Must be nice to be a Billionair!
@krisdavies8548
June 17, 2025 at 4:59 pm
Looks like the sr71 boat version
@MrCubflyer
June 17, 2025 at 8:09 pm
seems like kite racing not sailing. I think to be fair the sail should have to be attached to the boat.
@geraldpaznokaitis1431
June 17, 2025 at 8:09 pm
Looks like Firefox
@cbarak72
June 17, 2025 at 9:47 pm
Vomit vessel
@scdrescher1
June 18, 2025 at 12:03 am
Let’s go really fast!
Ok…but what about turning?
Let’s go really really fast!!
Well…I can’t argue your logic.
@michoacanohh2227
June 18, 2025 at 12:25 am
How do you stop?
@jeanlefranc3817
June 18, 2025 at 1:19 am
Great project.
Only issue is: Richard Mille is a brand for rich wankers.
Being sponsored by them doesn’t send the right signal at all. Staying into watches, a sponsorship by Omega or Oris would have been much more aligned in terms of values.
@mike_oe
June 18, 2025 at 1:58 am
SP80 is a great team and vehicle, but they are still way below the Vestas record.
@jakubkrawczyk2090
June 18, 2025 at 2:55 am
Soooo…how do you start and land the kite?
@norbertmoravek9467
June 18, 2025 at 4:50 am
this video i only bla bla bla like riding a bycicle at 65 mph…..
@caracamano71
June 18, 2025 at 9:20 am
👍
@prieten49
June 18, 2025 at 9:36 am
Looks like a bumpy ride!
@joetaylor486
June 18, 2025 at 11:29 am
This type of innovation is wonderful. Can we have so much more of this type of lateral thinking?
@noidreculse8906
June 18, 2025 at 12:23 pm
They sound french, 💩
@Malefectra
June 18, 2025 at 12:25 pm
The SP80 reminds me of the Pirhana Advancements ships from the old Wipeout games on Playstation back in the day.
@MrZrazies
June 18, 2025 at 1:46 pm
Nice… oh look here comes 3 foot wave….. Dead…. D E D…. Dead.
@ViniciusBastosRJ
June 18, 2025 at 2:53 pm
Veleiro sem velas?
@justdoingitjim7095
June 18, 2025 at 3:09 pm
I just spent a day breaking in a cheap little 18hp Hangkai outboard on my 14ft aluminum V-hull boat. It’s top speed was 25-26mph, which is CRAZY FAST for this 70 year old man! That doesn’t sound like much compared to a car, but the speed record for a sail boat is about 75mph (65 knots). So, I was doing 1/3 the sailing speed record in a tiny 14ft tin boat!
@my9129
June 18, 2025 at 3:55 pm
All that white foam and wake suggests wasted energy. Seems like the optimal design would have extremely minimal but crazy strong struts connected to foils completely underwater that reconfigure on the fly to do what is needed at different speeds and conditions. It wouldn’t touch the surface much or create much disturbance in passing. The rest of the boat that flies over the surface would be minimized too.
@crackedtpot_christian
June 18, 2025 at 4:02 pm
‘This is SP80. Currently flying over LA. Can we have a speed check, over’
@ErLeuchten
June 18, 2025 at 4:54 pm
Waterworld yep 🙂
@aaronray3956
June 18, 2025 at 5:06 pm
Similar work in the desert? Pharaohs barge could have been powered by kites and been a sand barge.
@SuccessShared
June 18, 2025 at 5:17 pm
Pilot needs to have an independently sprung cabin (like a truck/semi) otherwise pilot’s going to be in pieces IF they make it to the finish line
@mobayguy
June 18, 2025 at 6:18 pm
Awesome! This is some of the coolest tech I’ve seen in a long while. Good luck guy! Stay safe and have fun!
@djdynieldaniel1395
June 18, 2025 at 8:29 pm
Why persiste to une knots?
@Frank-rx8ch
June 18, 2025 at 8:47 pm
Looks like it has the same design as the stealth fighter jet. Almost has that stealth speed on water like it does in the sky.
@stayawake5213
June 18, 2025 at 8:55 pm
Take it out at 🌑 & watch it disappear 🫥 🛸.
@JAMaxeRestoration
June 18, 2025 at 9:01 pm
what are the speeds, I didn’t hear any mention of the record speed and the speeds this boat is traveling at in this video?
@randellgribben9772
June 19, 2025 at 5:12 am
cool!!!
@jsytac
June 19, 2025 at 6:11 am
So the rules do not require the object to be in contact with the water?
@blackwhitestyles1309
June 19, 2025 at 7:31 am
Anyone else play Killer Loop in the early 2000’s? Looks exactly the same.
@diGritz1
June 19, 2025 at 11:04 am
I’m well aware this was made for only one thing. But I have to wonder if anyone could remember anything about the attempt. Cause it doesn’t look like you could concentrate on more then 1 or 2 things during an attempt. Like glancing out to get a sense of speed. I’ve flown stunt kite for a few decades and know all to well even a momentary glance out of the corner of your eye and….oops another 3 hundred dollar kite. And this is probably that x 10.
@MarcoMassardi-q7c
June 19, 2025 at 11:43 am
Se ponen cascos imitación piloto de caza jajajajaja🤣🤣🤣 que fantasmas.
@iamtheoffenderofall
June 19, 2025 at 11:59 am
You built a sail boat congrats
@Divine_Operator
June 19, 2025 at 12:29 pm
i need 2 of those! can you put bigger kites to jump on those 2 sailboats?
@Hog-g2z
June 19, 2025 at 2:44 pm
Great looking 👀 Canard , hydro, many years ago I built something like this with a IC motor, radio controlled, the motor was putting out so much torque from the engine it would lift making it unstable, good luck with your quest for speed,
@bigjimstream
June 19, 2025 at 3:35 pm
I think the specifications need to be updated to include the requirement for a main mast sail mount. I’m sure the designers never intended for this thing to be “pulled” behind a kite.
@Artist1888
June 20, 2025 at 1:10 am
I think that is exactly what the designers intended. It seems very specifically designed to use a kite.
@bigjimstream
June 20, 2025 at 1:27 am
I’m referring to the “designers” of the rules for the contest. Not the craft designers. I’m quite certain they always planned to use a kite instead of a sail.
@chrislatchem1854
June 19, 2025 at 4:56 pm
re the foils…you have probably looked into it but hydroplane power boat racers use wedge shapes prob foils that cavitate alright but deliver lift at very high speed through the water (‘chopping’ through the surface), might have to deploy them only after get up to a certain speed …ahh getting too complex …
@georgewhitehouse8630
June 19, 2025 at 5:33 pm
I believe that land lovers are also very interested in the oceans 🌊
@clayz1
June 19, 2025 at 5:49 pm
Is cool looking the same as fast? It is in this case.
@NoPrivateProperty
June 19, 2025 at 7:02 pm
capitalists will want to own the wind and charge rent
@ericdawson3425
June 19, 2025 at 7:47 pm
If it floats on water with a sail of any kind it’s a sail boat I love it
@bengrillet
June 19, 2025 at 8:21 pm
The next advance must be to add shock-absorbing suspension to the hulls – I suggest carbon fibre planing “shells” hinged at the front of each floatation hull, and held away from them further back by shock absorbers. This would massively reduce the forward vector energy lost to the impact of the waves on the rigid hulls. Race car designers realised long ago the importance of good suspension to improve performance. Monohull power boats would also benefit massively from this improvement, with a single outer hull-form suspended a short gap away from the main hull, to absorb much of the uncomfortable pounding onto wave crests. With a bit of clever engineering, the energy-absorbing gap could be variable, to suit varying wave conditions.
@bengrillet
June 19, 2025 at 8:24 pm
Reduce the unsprung mass from 100% to a minimum of the shell mass
@garryperrin2408
June 19, 2025 at 8:38 pm
Lotta design there🥸
@lotsabuena1406
June 19, 2025 at 10:39 pm
there is an old saying….”all it takes is Time and Money” to achieve anything possible ………..simply keep moving forward fearlessly and you will arrive ! I have sailed most oceans and seas within my lifetime, I wish you fair winds and time to find your Winds and Waves……..there is nothing more beautiful than finding the point where Human and Nature intersect !! Thank you for being the next generation of explorers so that we Humans may find our true place upon the planet. Fair Winds Amigos, keep moving forward !!!!!!!!
@JohnnyMcFixer
June 19, 2025 at 10:49 pm
That’s going to be one tangled mess when they start racing these.
@WR_CTorch
June 20, 2025 at 12:05 am
Reminds me of the SR-71 I use to see everyday at work. I never got tired of looking at that masterpiece. Well done gentlemen.
@GNARGNARHEAD
June 20, 2025 at 1:27 am
very cool
@bennsan
June 20, 2025 at 2:03 am
discriminating the whole standardized rest of the world with land miles!!! 🤣
@elhoward7440
June 20, 2025 at 9:51 am
Wind surfer sail vs. kite sail… interesting competition. Eventually the kite sail will hold the record, because the windspeed is higher 100 feet off the water.
@glengullickson6538
June 20, 2025 at 4:01 pm
WOW!
@gEtar87
June 20, 2025 at 5:01 pm
Skunkworks inspired
@guss2099
June 20, 2025 at 6:17 pm
Kevin Costner in Waterworld!🤔
@davemagick6739
June 20, 2025 at 9:39 pm
Benoît Gaudiot… with great power comes great hair.
@thetruthserum2816
June 20, 2025 at 9:58 pm
It seems like one could develop 4 line kite winches that could auto deploy the kites and use feedback and possible machine vision to steer the kites.
@leadbreastplate7496
June 20, 2025 at 10:56 pm
I could do better
@Sam-qr9wu
June 20, 2025 at 11:15 pm
Frigging awesome!
@NapalmTK4622
June 21, 2025 at 1:28 am
Looks like the Klingon Bird of Prey.
@Montecristo-v3x
June 21, 2025 at 1:37 pm
Cui prodest?
@99bx99
June 21, 2025 at 8:30 pm
Monohull sailors HATE multihull sailors. Mono guys get excited when they hit 15 knots.