First kite adventure of 2020 in Puerto Rico. You never know when your last kite trip will be before a major lock-down.

Not an instructional video but it still might be of interest for the DIY people.

Longer edit from this year's OBX trip:

Is weight a measure of performance? Esp over time? If the difference is significant then yes. More weight is slower to react, harder to turn, physically more annoying to carry, can increase the difficulty of tricks. It could also make the board more solid and less twitchy and to some degree smoothe...

Thanks for the good info. The repair is for a customer's kite with a torn attachment point and seam so i am trying to do the cleanest job possible. I may need to sew a little strip of fabric along where the tear is uneven/warped before resewing everything. It looks like a straight forward job but ju...

So I have repaired many LEI kite canopies using ripstop sail tape and then 3 step zig-zag stitching it over; is this an appropriate method to repair foil kites too? Or should the tape method be avoided as the tape tends to pucker with time? What are water foil kite skins made from: ripstop nylon or ...

Puerto Rico is an amazing island that has all sorts of spots and conditions. Check out the edit:

When you fully sheet in at full power (depower rope all the way out) all the lines need to be even, if they are then you should be good to go. Otherwise you will need to do some pigtail,knot, or back leader line swap to get the lines even. As for your second question: it will depend on the kite. A k...

I will be in Puerto Rico at the beginning of February for a few weeks. I have been to PR before and will be staying near Punta Picuas for the flat water. I would like to check out other flat water spots though. Vieques (island) looks like it has some really beautiful beaches...is the wind any good t...