Oct 06, 04 : Performance-Based Guarantee
KiteShip, sailing innovators and makers of OutLeader spinnaker replacement kites today announces the industry's first money-back performance-based guarantee for its free-flying sailing kites.
"If, after 15 hours flying time, your boat is not faster than an identical boat, with the same size spinnaker, in the same conditions (minimum average wind speed 10 knots), we will cheerfully buy back your kite. We reserve only the right to be aboard during the test," says Dave Culp, President of KiteShip.Com.
This is the first time in the sailing industry's history that a manufacturer has offered an across-the-board money-back guarantee based on a product's competitive performance. "Ours is a new concept, and although flying these kites is straightforward and FAST, we feel that our prospective customers deserve a level of reassurance that their hard-earned money is well spent," offers Culp. "Our standard two-year warranty against defects in materials/workmanship remains in place throughout."
OutLeader spinnaker replacement kites are designed to replace and to outperform both symmetrical and asymmetrical spinnakers aboard the great majority of racing and voyaging sailing yachts. OutLeaders utilize stronger, smother winds aloft to make them more powerful than conventional spinnakers of equal size. The kites were initially designed to be rule-legal off-wind sails in the America's Cup, and measure-in as legal asymmetrical spinnakers, per the International Sailing Federation's (ISAF) Equipment Rules of Sailing.
Due to their unique design, these kites are flown from the deck, not from the mast. OutLeader kite-powered boats are less prone to spinnaker broaches, bow burying and high speed control issues, as well as less prone to catastrophic dismastings. A number of offshore-capable yachts are already carrying OutLeader kites for their "get home" capability in the event of rig failure.
Contact KiteShip; info@kiteship.com, and at +1 925 550 6738. See them flown at distributors in New England, the Pacific Northwest, San Francisco, Florida, the UK and Europe, Australia and New Zealand.