The ring float is one of a pair of small rings which set crosswind on the perimeter of a larger diameter taught rope anchored as per previous hex meshes. The anchoring incorporates 360x180 guides run to a nearby barge.
Buoyant fore carts run on the large ring by means of a tensed diameter rope linking the internal carriages and mast floats for cohesive rotation.

Thanks again

How long till I "Break a leg" (from stage curtain ropes fraying... a good performer got so many encores of rope hoisting... they broke a leg.)

Proving the availability of maximal safe access to all flown parts would surely be a bonus though.

I'd certainly trust being hoisted under a massive sail rig more than under most any of those spinny hard things.

I'll infill all the lift and torque devices as suggested.

And a better one with some infill and stabilising lines.
http://youtu.be/V6BJIF1qV-M

MORE COMPLETE DISCLOSURE:

Novel Launch Method: Tether-Coupled Gliders Shorten Tether or Tethers To Launch or Gain Altitude

First embodiment: *: Self-reel closing of tether length that couples canopy wing with HG (thus no ground anchor, no towing vehicle). Both coupled wings launch into the air while being on long tether; HG reels line. This does not use trees, soil anchors, gambions, tow vehicles, etc. The method just needs to keep the two coupled wings from snagging ground objects until both wings and line are up off the ground; launch into air occurs soon; both wings kite upward. In one embodiment have only the HG inhabited; bring in canopy wing into HG after altitude is reached and used the system later for rescue or another launch cycle. In another embodiment: Have PG inhabited as one wing coupled to inhabited HG; by the reeling of the coupled line, HG and PG launch each other at once. Umbilical cord; echo of gestation and birth! PG-HG birth each other. Note: the long line may be lifted off the ground by using kites or kytoons along its long length when wanted to keep the line surely off the ground when starting the launch sequence.

Third embodiment has to do with coupled HGs or coupled PGs doing aloft step-tether-closing-towing without propellers, but just the novel method; once coupling distance is short, the line is let out hung while soaring out occurs to put the line at length again; as they are still coupled, then the tether-gather is operated again to have another cycle of tether-gather kiting while couple. Repeast this cycle to climb to limits.

Fourth embodiment of the novel method is to have two independent glider not yet coupled doing a tether coupling while aloft; then proceed to use the novel method for tether-gather kiting without propellers; again stepping cycles my then be used, if wanted.

Fifth embodiment involves having a tether-collecting device on each of the two long-tether-coupled gliders; in such variation both tether-collecting devices may contribute to collecting tether during the shortening of the tether coupling; in such variation the tasking of kiting the two wings is shared by the combination of the two separated collecting devices.

Sixth embodiment of the novel launch method is a threesome where there are three gliders tether-coupled forming a global triangle where two tethers arrive to each glider wing, yet there is but one global triangle of tether; the glider wings are at the three corners of a global triangle of tether. Each glider could have a tether-collecting device; upon operation the gliders' tether-collecting device pull in two lines at once; such operation has the global triangle of tethers shrink in sized as the three separate gliders approach the approximate centroid of the global triangle. As the global triangle of tethers shrinks then there is an apparent wind formed for each glider which may be used to kite up to gain altitude; when the operation is smartly done, then all three gliders are kited together to a higher altitude.

Seventh embodiment is to have the three gliders of the sixth embodiment description release line at the gained altitude to have the global triangle of tether relax and grow as the glider glide away from the centroid of the global triangle. Upon reaching out points forming a larger global triangle of tehter, then the gliders may reverse direction and begin to use the tether-gathering devies again to gain a new step of kiting for another cycle of altitude gain. This all is a threesome coordinated step-towing using the essence of the novel launch method.

Eighth embodiment is to have four or more gliders tether-coupled similar to the sixth embodiment described above, but here the gliders would be at the vertices of a global polygon: square, pentagon, hexagon, hepagon, etc., n-gon, where each glider still has just two lines being collected at its tether-collecting device. During operation for launch to gain kited altitude, each glider collects two tethers; the result is that the n-gon of tether shrinks and each glider faces an apparent wind for use in kiting to a higher altitude. The same operation for step-towing for the n-gon may occur as development in the three-some and the two-glider arrangement.

We are not limited to the eight embodiments briefly described; those skilled in the arts will notice other variations and arrangements that use the fundamental novel launch method. In all embodiments, the gliders may de-couple from the global tether-coupling to enter free-flight; and in such free-flight the gliders may opt to re-couple and enter another cycle of use of the novel launch method. Further, the novel launch method could be used to enter various FFAWE flights where differential winds may be used to advantage for coupled soaring. Also, the novel launch method may be used to launch IFOs which are energy-production sailplanes as especially taught by Gabor Dobos.

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Chris Carlin said: "I agree there is no free lunch note that the concept has been demonstrated by a transatlantic submarine trip using the same principle in water. I think you must run the numbers."

Chris, you might as well substitute "foolish" for "fuelless", since by definition, and by simple physics, any perceived "free" energy received has to first be input by compression.  Sure, you can watch a submarine in a heavier-than-water condition glide downward for a time until it can't go any lower.  At that point you will have to use JUST AS MUCH energy as you thought you had gained, to pump air into chambers, or pump water out, however you want to look at it, to get back to the surface.  Net result: no free lunch, you did not avoid paying for fuel.  It turns out to be just one more way to use energy to travel.  Same with a blimp version:  Sure, you can pretend to "travel for free" starting with a blimp in a lighter-than-air condition,  once you reach max altitude, you will then expend as much energy to compress enough air to get back down as you thought you had gained "for free".  When it comes to perpetual motion schemes, the only numbers you really need to run are energy-in and energy-out.  If "energy-out" is more than "energy-in" in the absence of energy capture, you have perpetual motion.