Aero- and Hydrodynamic Performance Analysis of a Speed Kiteboarder: Breaking the World Speed Sailing Record

Motivation: Speed sailing can be seen as the ultimate challenge for a sailing craft. Kiteboarders have recently shown to be capable of extremely high sailing speeds using a relatively cheap and simple combination of a kite and a board. They proved to be the world’s fastest sailing crafts during a record attempt in October 2008, in September 2009...