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snoozer11 Member Member#: 8676 Location: Registered: 14-11-2009 Diary Entries: 121 |
8th July 2011 Kite surfing: Ynyslas Wind Direction: WSW Wind Stength: 20 Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: Partly sunny Max Speed: Distance Covered: Looking good at lunchtime (and not much forecast for the weekend) so arrived just after midday. Out on the 12m kite and had several good hours other than my impact vest zip bursting open and jamming up. Came in for a break and to ditch the vest which was flapping around in a most annoying way and back out for some more. Another hour or so until in the middle of a shallow water transition something let go caused the kite to loop uncontrollably. Safety leash worked great ! Turned out one of the bridle pulleys had bust apart... Put the kite out to dry off and was about to change when Spooker arrived and brought more wind :) Rigged the 9m kite and got another nice couple of hours on the water. Fantastic! Then I find that the kite is real soft - hoping it was just sand in the valve cos that kite has never leaked at all - and it took 3 hours to fix a leading edge puncture 2 weeks go in my 12m kite and I don't mush fancy all that fiddling around with bladders and inflation valve alignment again already... So a great day on the water but a bit hard on the kit ! Tempted to go for 5 stars but demoted to 4 due to the breakages :) [edit] Infact it was a missing rubber washer on the valve that caused the kite to leak - easily fixed by cutting out a new one from some left over EPDM rubber from the garage roof ! |
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