Looks interesting, particularly because it's available in 12-inch wide rolls, twice as wide as TearAid, perfect for those really wide bladder blow-outs !

Will have to get some up here in Canada and test it for bladder repairs.

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Thu May 09, 2019 2:30 pm

Is that still a duck tack or is that called something else?

Using sailboat turning definitions, your board is tacking ( turning up into the wind ) and your body is gybing ( turning down-wind ). So maybe the name for your transition is a board tack - body gybe ??

Looks like the 2-sided TearAid patches extend far enough from the tear to hold and ensure the tear does not grow in length. If you decide to leave it, minimize sun exposure at the adhesive in TearAid will yellow and harden a bit with UV exposure. Keep an eye on the edges of the patches, they may sta...

IMO and experience freeride foiling, Boardriding Maui Cloud kite are the best "cruising" foilboarding kites because they depower and turn quickly, and are very powerful when working the kite, so you get away with a very small kite. Water relaunching may take a little getting used to, but once you le...

FWIW Q-power lines were developed by a Canadian company quite a while back, originally for the land kiting crowd ( landboarders & kite buggy riders ) where there lines are very often in the dirt.

A bit of info about the company here : http://www.powerline-sports.com/main.html

The first two years of the Flite, which from a Google search looks like 2012 & 2013 models, the kite was 4-strut and sizes were 15m & 17.5m. These kites were too heavy to be great light wind kites, better as a big kite for very heavy riders in moderate wind. In 2014, the Flite was changed to a 3-str...

Maybe Cory Roeseler might have a few still kicking around from his Kite Ski days in the early 1990's.

Suspect he's still living in the Columbia River Gorge, somebody on this forum might know how to get hold of him, or try on the Pacific Northwest kite forum - http://nwkite.com/forums/f-1.html

Ocean Rodeo's rear-line trimming bar has stayed the same price from 2018 to 2019, and the new '19 model has an improved CL, the release is way easier to re-set.

https://oceanrodeo.com/product/shift/

Does "2018 and newer" mean gen 5 or gen 6 onwards? Thanks! Not 100% sure, but pretty sure Gen 5 was 2016 - 2017 and Gen 6 came out in early 2018. Gen 6 have the totally black Dacron LE pocket. The bridle lines on the kite are loops on the front bridles, and knots on the steering lines. Earlier mode...

Ocean Rodeo Flite 14.5m is a great light wind kite.

The 2018 and newer models now have the same kite bridle attachment configuration ( loops of the kite's front bridle, knots on the back/steering bridle lines ) as your Cab kites, so would work on your Cab bars.