No, but really, that’s fking awesome. I want two of them!

Besides, the basic problem with this thing is not stopping it but getting it moving in the first place. the shape of it and the fact that the riders legs are submerged in the water creates a massive amount of drag. You’d have to use a massive kite to move it, probably double the size you might use if kiteboarding which creates big risks for launching and landing, control in gusts and accidental miscontrol becoming much more serious.

So lets say you’ve done that and you get moving. Kite sailing involves the kite generating pulling force perpendicular to the canopy so the kite has to be placed at the side of the vessel and resistance to the lateral component of its pulling force allows the forward component to pull the craft forward – generally across the wind direction. How does the rider stop the craft just being pulled over sideways? Theres a good reason why kite boats tend to be catamarans – a simple google search would have revealed that.

It also makes the false assumption that the kite is steered like some kind of airborne powerboat. point it where you want to go and the boat follws Wrong, Steering allows the kite to be placed in the air to generate the general direction of the pull the rider needs relative to the wind, steering the vessel is accomplished by directing the board or using a rudder if on a kite boat.

anyway, its a silly idea. there you go.

Good luck with the design, I think it will work, even if most of these people don’t