My definition of a city is diverse cultural and culinary offering. safe, and reasonable costs for a visit. Easy access to kite spots with winds 12+ knots that are frequent. The reason I am asking is my family enjoys visiting these kind of places, and I wish to combine with daily kite session. Melbo...

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks a 33" (84cm) low-volume board is hard to waterstart... You are right that it is a bit more difficult. When I was riding my 97cm board, I never once occurred to me that it was a bit of a challenge to waterstart, in just about any conditions (at least in compa...

3.7m Cloud 4.8m Cloud 8.0m Cloud If only one kite - 4.8m Cloud Almost exactly for me too. I'd go clouds all the way but i prefer to build a quiver around the goto kite and not skip sizes. Prefer right size for the best / most frequent conditions to total range coverage. Can also extend the range qu...

with these thinner, say 1cm wood sheets, how do you make the nose rocker, if you want for example 5cm? I mean if you glue 5 sheets on top of each other to the nose, how do you get the carve out the material from the topside, please? From the underside it's not problematic, just sanding, but topside...

Thanks for all the help and advice! I will just go for the lowest lowtech solution for now and buy a one piece at my holiday location and screw the mast onto it (I am leaving in 2 days..). Once I am back I will make it a building project as suggested by TomW. Will update on process. Thanks again!! ...

On another note (and far from the pieces of art usually discussed here..): I am traveling soon and do not want to take my board, as it does not fit normal luggage (and I have my family, so reduced luggage allowance for kite stuff :-/). I fit a 70cm mast, wing, fuselage, kites etc all in a normal su...

Great tips - that makes a lot of sense. One question if you ride towards the kite won't it drop out of the sky? You want to point far enough downwind that the kite loses power and you slow down, but no so far that you ride straight under it and it falls out the sky. One more thing: If you feel like...

Rig a smaller kite. But if you're in this situation in the now: Say you're going downwind and you don't slow down, go more downwind. Keep kite high. If you're going straight downwind you should be riding straight towards the kite and it will lose power and you'll slow down. If this doesn't happen, d...

Just a suggestion, haven't tried this myself, but can't see why it wouldn't work:
How about your own epoxy mix consisting of epoxy with microfibres or other filler mixed in to get the right gel like consistency, and then add a small amount of black graphite powder?

It's all in the arms. Alternating backwards and forwards with each pump.
This looks efficient, comfortable, but still a bit goofy, yeah.