Postby Ray-au » Fri Aug 02, 2002 10:35 am
Had a fifth line on my 11.5 ARX for a while, and saved me a lot of stuffing around, relaunch within seconds instead of all that swimming, great if your are shark phobic in any way. There is no differace in turning, I even felt as if the kite luffs less, only draw back is setting up takes a bit longer. All you need is about 20m el cheapo line, one end each is tied to these loops on the ends of 2 struts, then attach another 15m (give a bit more) to the first line with a loop so that it can slide along. The other end of the second line just ties to your bar, anywhere allong the grip where it bothers you least, dont tie it on right away, launch the kite, dont hook in, and get a mate to find out how long you have to leave it, so that the kite is not affected in flight, the whole setup tends to hang out the back a fair bit and looks a bit stange, but works well !
Ray