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Parasailing, also known as parascending, paraskiing or parakiting, is a recreational kiting activity where a person is towed behind a vehicle while attached to a specially designed canopy wing that resembles a parachute, known as a parasail wing. The manned kite 's moving anchor may be a car, truck, or boat.
The Parasailor and Parasail are patented and trademarked variants of a spinnaker sail for yachts. They were designed for cruising couples and short-handed crews and are considered to be easy to handle and well tempered. [1] These sails make it possible to use one sail as spinnaker and Gennaker. These sails can be used between 70 and 180 degrees ...
Powered paraglider at a Kanagawa beach in Japan, 2022. Powered paragliding, also known as paramotoring or PPG, is a form of ultralight aviation where the pilot wears a back-pack motor (a paramotor) which provides enough thrust to take off using a paraglider. It can be launched in still air, and on level ground, by the pilot alone—no ...
CLEARWATER, Fla. - Look, up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's a parasail! Ok, all corny clichés aside, the chances are that if you've visited the beach here in Pinellas County, you've ...
Paragliding is the recreational and competitive adventure sport of flying paragliders: lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched glider aircraft with no rigid primary structure. [1]
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Vinny Lauwers. Vincent Marc Thierry Lauwers (born 12 September 1967) is an Australian round-the-world yachtsman. In 2000 he became the first paraplegic sailor to sail solo, non-stop around the world. In 2001, he won the Laureus Award for "Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability".
The White-Miskill Act for Parasailing. is a law enacted by the legislature of the State of Florida in 2014 for the control of the sport of parasailing.It relates to commercial and recreational water activities prohibiting certain water activities within some areas and specifies the requirements for the operator of a vessel engaged in commercial parasailing.