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A positioning apparatus for a freely flying kite-like element on which wind acts, having a wing profile 101 as the exclusive propulsion system, as an auxiliary propulsion system or as an emergency propulsion system. The kite-like element is connected via a hawser 1.1 to a watercraft 4. The apparatus is characterised in that a winch having a drive mechanism is provided which has means which result in the hawser 1.1 being pulled-in in the event of imminent stall or if stall has occurred. The apparatus is further characterised in that a pulling-in process and a paying-out process, particularly in a relatively high sea state, are carried out in such a manner that undesirable vessel movements in the cable direction are compensated for by a phase-shifted drive. (62) Divided Out of 550719
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