Patent ID: 6910434

Claim:
Control device for a steering kite of a vehicle, especially a boat, which steering kite ( 20 ) is steerable by at least two flight lines ( 22 ) by means of a steering device ( 25 ), said control device comprising at least one force input rail ( 22 , 30 , 33 , 36 ) on which a deflection device ( 24 ) for the flight lines is attached and movable to and fro and which extends essentially horizontally above a waterline such that said deflection device ( 24 ) is kept on said force input rail ( 23 ) in any position at a distance from at least one of a longitudinal axis ( 27 ), a cross axis ( 26 ), and a rotation axis ( 31 , 37 ) of the boat, so that a torque is generated by a pull force of the steering kite around at least one of the longitudinal axis and cross axis of the boat in the water by which torque a side ( 28 , 29 ) of the boat averted to the wind is lifted up.