What happened?magic%20Ed wrote:Last year I did this myself.
Big mistake!
The only good thing was that I realized that 10 years experience does not mean that you are always in control...
What happened?magic%20Ed wrote:Last year I did this myself.
Big mistake!
The only good thing was that I realized that 10 years experience does not mean that you are always in control...
leash suicide if you're going to unhook. then you don't get a tangled mess everytime you crash. and you will be crashing lotsLanBro wrote:This happened to me last week. I tried my first unhooked railey...and needless to say it didn't work. My leash was hooked to a center flag-out line...When i got back to the bar the right outside line was now wrapped around my 2 center lines (under). I was a little nervous but I relaunched it and slowly came back in with the bar fully sheeted out so the rear lines were slack and not pulling on the fronts.
The question I have is, if I wanted to fix it out on the water how should I have passed the bar?
The right outside line was now under the 2 center lines? If looking at my bar..the lines were in the following order...I had the left outside line straight (no problem there) then my right outside line then my 2 center lines..
thanks
Under the center lines is a little vague, since, for the line to go under, it must first pass over, and vice versa.LanBro wrote:This happened to me last week. I tried my first unhooked railey...and needless to say it didn't work. My leash was hooked to a center flag-out line...When i got back to the bar the right outside line was now wrapped around my 2 center lines (under). I was a little nervous but I relaunched it and slowly came back in with the bar fully sheeted out so the rear lines were slack and not pulling on the fronts.
The question I have is, if I wanted to fix it out on the water how should I have passed the bar?
The right outside line was now under the 2 center lines? If looking at my bar..the lines were in the following order...I had the left outside line straight (no problem there) then my right outside line then my 2 center lines..
thanks
kiteboardbum wrote:just to second what everyone else is saying, the safest option is to relaunch your kite with the lines crossed, ride directly back to the beach and fix it there. the kite will fly with lines crossed...not good for the lines to do this for a long time, but fine for a quick ride back to the beach. if you want to fix it in the water, unhook your leash, pass your bar (not yourself) through the center of the lines, and then re-hook up your leash. Its easiest to do this if you set your kite on its wingtip on the water at the edge of the wind window.
LanBro wrote:
The question I have is, if I wanted to fix it out on the water how should I have passed the bar?
thanks
How much wind do you need to ride with it?kitezilla wrote:puppet kite
Yeh, I came unhooked by accident during a jump, didn't know it, dropped the bar on crash landing and it flagged far down the leash line... inverted while pulling the kite in. Otherwise I can't see the RPM ever inverting on its own.SimonP wrote:I've only ever inverted an RPM once, when it was caught by a wave with slack lines.