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Winter sessions part2

 

 

 

The signs are upon us that the season change is here. Warmer, longer Balmy days, easterly winds, and the need for sunscreen (Always)

But we are still getting the odd winter storms lashing our South African Eastern Cape Coast line. As I write this Blog the house is creaking with a “Very Fresh South Westerly” .

But the winter is over.
As I mentioned on a previous post, this was an unusual year for me. Normally following the swallows, this year I was left behind. But things weren’t too bad, unusual winds for our low season has meant that here in Cannon Rocks I’ve kited on average 3 to 4 times a week!

 

All along  we’ve been capturing footage and testing some new equipment from Peter Lynn An epic video will go online pretty soon. so keep an eye out for that.

So here in Cannon Rocks, we will be dusting off our shorty suits and learning to ride waves to the left all over again 😉

Ced

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More kiting in Rome

After my trip to Sardegna (see other post) I spent some time in Rome to carry on testing the new tube kite from Peter Lynn.

I was hoping for some sessions, and got fairly lucky with about 2 to 3 outings a week.

Thanks to Tania Romagnoli I got a whole lot of pictures from those sessions.

I’ve also written a full report on the tube kites prototypes I had with me which is here.

It was nice to catch up with some old friends on the beaches of Rome (Mostly Fregene)

Of course i mostly rode the 11m, but it turned out to be great fun.

I am now back in South Africa where the winds at my home spot, Cannon Rocks, are starting to blow… Time to hit the waves, with a longer wetsuit though, and jam some tunes…

Here a few pics from around rome:

 

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Unusual sight … Stacking kites

Two days ago, it looked like we were gonna get one of those light wind days where the wind just doesn’t pick up beyond 12 knots. So I decided to Stack my 12m and 15m  Peter Lynn Chargers (Which are C kite foils) and give it a go. I had done this years before with the old Guerilla models (around 2003) and knew that it was one of the few kites out there where stacking is feasible. On the old Guerilla, the turning became very slow, and going upwind very hard due to the low end grunt.

So here I am 8 years later trying it out again, and sure enough the stack went up.

The low grunt was there as expected… I mean technically I had 27m of kite up in the air. but amazingly, the turning wasn’t as bad as i expected. I actually managed to loop the stack on the beach.

So I headed out. My main purpose was to test the low wind ability of such an experiment. i really had to dig the edge, and also make sure I didn’t drop it as it could have gotten messy trying to relaunch. Luckily the stability of the arc kite really helped in that department.

However the wind didn’t co operate and started picking up as i hit the water… so i had to depower.

I started throing it around and trying some jumps. and although it was hard to get hight due to the low end grunt, the hang time was pretty insane…

Once it got too much, I took the 15 off and went out with the 12, which is the equivalent of a 9 LEI, must have been around 17/18 knots of wind.

Thanks to Henry Smith for helping me launch and land the stack (definitely not a solo mission). And tanks to Michelle Smith for taking pics and filming. I’ll include some footage in my next video…

Till next one

Ciao