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Yves Parlier: towing boats with flying kites
[Article in French]
Once a month, Surfrider invites you to discover a project that works to protect the oceans. This new Outside format presents external initiatives with common values for the organization. Meeting with these committed project leaders. For this Outside issue….
Yves Parlier, a world-renowned French sailor, has accumulated titles and awards throughout his sporting career. In 2001, he was admired for repairing his mast in the open sea to complete the Vendée Globe. […]
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Yves Parlier: the kitesurfing wing to pull boats – Les Echos
[Article in French]
With his company Beyond the Sea, the former Gironde navigator has developed a kite capable of towing pleasure boats, fishing boats and soon cruise ships.
After sailing, kite sailing? This is the objective pursued by Yves Parlier with his company Beyond the Sea: to make the kite used for kitesurfing a way to tow a ship. The former navigator who has been working on his project since 2007 is close to his goal. A first product, the LibertyKite, designed for boats from 4 to 18 metres has just been launched. Available in two versions of 10 and 20 square metres.
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Give your boat wings!
[Article in French]
It hasn’t escaped you, the end of the world is near! The pollution of the planet continues by leaps and bounds and cargo ships have their role to play in the impending apocalypse. But we found the savior of humanity in Yves Parlier!
Yves and the Beyond the Sea team are currently designing a gigantic wing, based on the kitesurfing model, which will offer cargo ships additional propulsion and fuel savings of nearly 50%. Eureka!
While waiting for this brilliant invention to be realized, you can already on your own scale, get a LibertyKite for your pleasure boat and reduce your ecological footprint.
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Arcachon Bay: Parlier, beyond the seas
[Article in French]
In the premises of the business incubator, navigator Yves Parlier continues to develop his traction sail, the LibertyKite, and with it ecology and safety.
He tows boats with a kite sail
[Article in French]
Twenty-five years ago, he won the Solitaire du Figaro and then the Route du Rhum. A seasoned sailor, Yves Parlier has today begun a new life. He tows freight boats with sails…
Yves Parlier: “If I could do like Eric Tabarly with me…”
[Article in French]
Twenty years ago, the great Eric Tabarly, 66, retired from his retirement to win the Transat Jacques-Vabre
First test of our wing on Energy Observer between Saint-Nazaire and the island of Yeu
[Video in French]
Yves Parlier and the Beyond the Sea team are currently on Energy Observer and testing different wings of the Beyond the Sea system.
We leave you with the pictures……
Morning sport – The strong character of long-distance sailors (5/5): Yves Parlier
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Throughout the week, Sport Matinee presents portraits of high-flying sailors, long-distance sailors, all of whom have the particularity of having a strong character, an essential condition for accomplishing extraordinary challenges. This Friday: Yves Parlier.
We found… the sailor Yves Parlier, marine engineer
[Article in French]
The edge of a dolphin bream of 86 cm and four kilos… It is the only and singular trophy that Yves Parlier retains from his ocean racing career, which has been marked by many victories.
In February 2001, on the island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic, fish with yellow and blue reflections had taken the bait from a broken stainless steel antenna, saving the navigator from starvation. Yves Parlier licks his lips at the evocation of the royal feast that followed. “I started by eating the giblets before cutting the fillets and putting them to dry,” he recalls, “then I sucked the bones and ate the skin. I had enough until the arrival. »
On board the Energy Observer, the first energy self-sufficient boat
[Article in French]
REPORTAGE – At the quayside in Paris, the 30-metre-long catamaran is embarking on a six-year world tour without fine particle emissions on Saturday.
Le Figaro was able to board this giant of the oceans, worthy heir to Commander Cousteau’s Calypso, before his extraordinary odyssey.
Kites to tow boats
[Article in French]
The navigator Yves Parlier innovates for the respect of the environment and safety. He tested his invention in Les Sables, aboard Arnaud Boissières’s 60-foot boat, 10th in the last Vendée Globe.
In Baie des Sables, Arnaud Boissières’s boat, La Mie Câline-Artipôle, is about to be towed… By kites. A test carried out on board by the inventor, the navigator Yves Parlier.
Yves Parlier introduces the “LIBERTYKITE®” for boating.
[Article in French]
Navigator Yves Parlier, winner of the Solitaire du Figaro in 1991, launched the “Liberty Kite”, a sail inspired by kite-surfing kites designed to propel pleasure boats from 10 to 12 metres long, during the Brest maritime festivals….
Arcachon – Boat Show, meeting Yves Parlier who introduces us to the LIBERTYKITE®, a kite that tows boats
[Article in French]
Since 2007, Yves Parlier, with the support of the Aquitaine region, has been embarking on a new challenge that is very different from that of the competition: that of kite wings for the yachting market. It is therefore on our platform installed at the Salon Nautique d’Arcachon that we received him so that he could present us the LibertyKite, the kite that tows boats.
Demonstrations will be held every day on a LibertyKite towed pinasse between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. Yves Parlier will also host a conference on Saturday, April 15 at 11:00 am in the institutional lobby.