"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in
anews.com:

With the chute pulling the boat by the bows and lifting the bows the
rest of the boat is just along for the ride. It's highly unlikely that
the rudder is going to come out of the water when running - even when
a wave crest passes - as there is such a thing as a quarter wave that
becomes quite large at hull speeds.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDmhCtyby3c

Speaking of chutes, isn't it time we jumped from the mid 1800's
inefficient airbag technology streaming from your pole to the serious
power the parasailing community has known about for years, like the
Germans below have done for ship boost propulsion? This would be a
great boon to sail power. Look carefully at the AZIMUTH RANGE the power
meter on the ship control panel of it shows in green! It's not just for
following seas....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUyetrs3MQ0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEnGm2eYoew


Now, combine a parasail dragging your hull through the water with a
rotating balloon that provides kilowatts of electrical energy from its
Bornoulli principle shaped object, like those below. The technology is
to replace the very expensive, hard to maintain wind generator towers,
like that damned noisy thing on your stern buzzing away while you're
trying to sleep...with one of these rotating electrical generator
balloons in the movies below! The same principle of the parasail is
turned into a vaned rotating genset kite that not only can pull your
boat through the water like the parasail, but send much-needed
electrical power down the tether lines to recharge those crappy golf
cart batteries in the bilge! At anchor, you wouldn't douse the chute,
you'd continue to deploy it, anchoring from your stern to keep the chute
genset downwind, high up above the interfering shore obstructions. An
automated winch system would deploy or retrieve the barrel-shaped
balloon to prevent over charging and overspeed operation, running on the
power the balloon provides, of course.

Now in the electricity generating business in the anchorage, floating
dropcords would be deployed to other boats who wish to BUY electrical
energy from you, reducing your costs of the balloon's purchase and
operating expenses, maybe even turning a profit....(c;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6ZFcKnP2AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6vgWP5U5Ew

Very cool stuff for anyone willing to pull his head out of the sand and
move on from trying to play Captain Blythe and the Pirates circa 1800s.

I doubt you could hear the balloon making 10KW from your bunk....(c;
If the wind died, the balloon would be straight up over your deploying
winch, not drowning in the water....a great idea!