%0 Journal Article %T Benchmark Sea Trials on a 6-Meter Boat Powered by Kite %+ Centre de Recherche de l'École de l'air (CReA) %+ Halehau %+ Service Recherche et Développement, Quiberon (ECOLE NATIONALE DE VOILE) %+ Institut de Recherche Dupuy de Lôme (IRDL) %A Roncin, Kostia %A Behrel, Morgan %A Iachkine, Paul %A Leroux, Jean-Baptiste %< avec comité de lecture %@ 2076-3417 %J Applied Sciences %I Multidisciplinary digital publishing institute (MDPI) %V 10 %N 18 %P 6148-1 - 6148-26 %8 2020-09 %D 2020 %R 10.3390/app10186148 %K Kite %K Ship propulsion %K Sea trials %K Wind measurement %K Phase-averaging %K kite %K ship propulsion %K sea trials %K wind measurement %K phase-averaging %Z Engineering Sciences [physics]Journal articles %X This paper presents sea trials on a 6-m boat specifically designed for kite propulsion. The kite control was automatic or manual, dynamic or static, depending on the point of sailing. The measurement system recorded boat motion and load generated by the kite. A particular attention was paid to wind measurement with several fixed and mobile locations directly on the kiteboat or in the vicinity. A high resolution weather modelling showed that a classical power law, describing the wind gradient, was not satisfactory to get the wind at kite location. 5-min measurement phases were systematically recorded. In the end, 101 runs were carried out. Data were processed with the phase-averaging method in order to produce reliable and accurate results. © 1996-2020 MDPI (Basel, Switzerland) unless otherwise stated %G English %2 https://ensta-bretagne.hal.science/hal-02995733/document %2 https://ensta-bretagne.hal.science/hal-02995733/file/applsci-10-06148-1.pdf %L hal-02995733 %U https://ensta-bretagne.hal.science/hal-02995733 %~ UNIV-BREST %~ ENSTA-BRETAGNE %~ CNRS %~ UNIV-UBS %~ UBS %~ ENIB %~ IRDL %~ ENSTA-BRETAGNE-MECA %~ TEST-HALCNRS %~ ENSTA-BRETAGNE-PTR3-IRDL