Wildwood Tuesday

[Kevinousdigian]

Yesterday Mike and I enjoyed some strong wind and nice swell to play on along the western shore with our 9m kites.

Today looks similar but warmer and sunnier. I'm hoping to hit the water by noon. Anyone else going?
Kevin
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[Reds]

I can get out around 4

[avery]

thinking around 2.30

[Debbie]

Think I will head over btwn 3 and 4.

[Kevinousdigian]

Wow a great session today. Strong winds and good swell to enjoy with Max, Terry, and others. I loved riding my Fuse and with new Liquid Force comp straps it feels perfect. A guy was taking pitchers from the Pioneer Press so be sure to look at that paper tomorrow.

More coming on Thursday, only a real warm blow from the south. Check out these tight isobars:
http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/progs/prog48hr.gif

KO

[Kevinousdigian]

Ok so I'm coaching baseball and was working on the lineup for tonights game.... just realized I spelled pictures as pitchers.

[Geo]

I figured it was just the surfer dude spelling handicap. Glad to hear the fuse worked in those conditions...I don't see why not, though - a 80L windsurf board does just fine, too.

[drknap]

The good news: I was able to sneak in a short overpowered session on the 13 waroo pro on the way home from work.
The bad news: While getting out of my dry suit and chatting with Terry at my van, a big gust came through and broke off a 14 foot limb from a tree which fell and landed right on top of my inflated kite. Over a dozen holes in the canopy ranging in size from a big 16 inch L shaped tear to numerous smaller puncture holes and slices, also a pierced leading edge bladder through the cuban fiber. Harsh! Thanks Terry for the lanch and landing!

[Kevinousdigian]

Kurt
What a bummer! That tree is probably 40 years old, you had once in a trillion or more odds that the branch would break when your kite was under it. I think this justifies saying honey I need a newer kite...

Geo - There is no comparison to the fun had a on short Fuse vs. a 'big' 80L windsurfing board. I've enjoyed plenty of the later but the carvibility and maneuverability is so much better on the Fuse not to mention the 9m kite has the range of 3-4 of my small windsurfing sails.

[Dave Z]

Wow - nobody likes tree on kite violence...especially when it's the tree perpetrating the crime!!!! That kite has seriously seen its day.

[Reds]

Ouch!

[Elkman]

Ouch. That looks pretty painful for your kite. It's a good thing that the branch didn't land on your head, though -- that would have been even more painful. I think you would have had a better chance of outrunning a falling branch than your kite did, though.

This sort of reminds me of Charlie Brown's nemesis, the kite-eating tree, but Charlie Brown never flew expensive power kites.

[RobH]

Thats just wrong - Tree's fighting back after all those kites hitting trees - sorry Kurt