It wasn’t a great day. It wasn’t a warm day. It wasn’t a day when all of the locals showed up to kite. It wasn’t even a good wave day. But, it was a bonus session on a day that was supposed to be saturated with rain from early morning until… well, until Wednesday.
Ryan, Jay and I rolled in to MBSP parking lot shortly after 10 am and debated for far too long about which kite/board to employ. Eventually, Continue reading
Ryan and I were the early crew. We rode foils for about the first 3 hours. Then, the forecast delivered and we switched to twin-tips. At one point, there were 5 kites on the water. I think there were 8 of us throughout the day. Andy, Bobby, Luke, Joel, Jen, Stephan, Mark, Ryan, Me. Yup… 8 kiters and one windsurfer. I can’t believe none of the other windsurfers showed up.
I can’t remember the last time that I spent 6-hours kiteboarding. I’m exhausted. As usual, there’s no pictures of the cameraman. Ryan did get some drone footage of me kiting, but we’ll have to wait to see if there’s anything worth sharing.
Here’s the video of me riding with Mark Musgrave of Red Sky Surf & Snow… My adrenaline dealer.
I got 2.5 hours by myself before the rest of the local crew showed up. Since I had more time on the water than they did, I took a break and shot some photos.
I recently bought the aluminum foil kit from Clearwater Hydrofoil. The kit came with an aluminum mast and fuselage. I also ordered the surf wing (largest wing below), kite wing (middle one) and the tail. And, I ordered a short aluminum mast which will make learning much easier
The wings were just plain wood so I needed to fiberglass them before I could use them. This required so many hours of work! I wasn’t close to prepared for what would be required. There’s a 4-hour curing time for each of the following steps…
Not a bad way to spend your lunch hour(s) (I am on vacation so lunch can take as long as I want.)
Epic collection of pics after the break…
