Sounds he kited alone. Or was anyone else around?
If not, quick help is impossible.
Heart attack or getting unconscious can happen quickly.
RIP
There are other reports, apparently there were other kiters on shore and they were watching him when he disappeared in the waves. Sounds like he may have drowned
Amazing a report could get it so wrong, but nothing new about that, I guess. The bottom picture shows him doing a duck gybe, so he was a very good windsurfer (in 25 years of windsurfing I never got to that stage). This makes his death even more strange, and perhaps something medical rather than drowning.
Correct..Phil who frequents this forum brother was there. It was definitely a WS.....
We had a very close call here last weekend . It was blowing 40 gusting to 60, people should not have been kiting, but of course the kooks went out. One guy had a bad launch and his kite looped several times bouncing him off the beach, knocking him out and by a miracle he stop a few feet short of a nasty rock wall that would have killed or seriously mangled him... He was taken to the hospital , I have not heard how serious he was hurt.
Choose your days wisely even if you think you're an expert.
It was blowing 40 gusting to 60, people should not have been kiting, but of course the kooks went out. One guy had a bad launch and his kite looped several times bouncing him off the beach, knocking him out and by a miracle he stop a few feet short of a nasty rock wall that would have killed or seriously mangled him... He was taken to the hospital , I have not heard how serious he was hurt.
Choose your days wisely even if you think you're an expert.
I disagree, that Saturday was a pretty epic day in NY/NJ and lots of people left with a smile.
here is a video from that day from Breezy point, which is 5mi away from the spot where Robert died.
I think there were around 30 people on the water, which is unusual for this time of the year in NY.
Robert was probably the best windsurfer in the area. From what I heard he was considering getting kiting lessons from one of our guys (for low wind days) but never quite got to that point.
Circumstances are still unclear, but to me it seems like a medical issue and not his skill or bad luck.. RIP...
It was blowing 40 gusting to 60, people should not have been kiting, but of course the kooks went out. One guy had a bad launch and his kite looped several times bouncing him off the beach, knocking him out and by a miracle he stop a few feet short of a nasty rock wall that would have killed or seriously mangled him... He was taken to the hospital , I have not heard how serious he was hurt.
Choose your days wisely even if you think you're an expert.
I disagree, that Saturday was a pretty epic day in NY/NJ and lots of people left with a smile.
here is a video from that day from Breezy point, which is 5mi away from the spot where Robert died.
I think there were around 30 people on the water, which is unusual for this time of the year in NY.
Robert was probably the best windsurfer in the area. From what I heard he was considering getting kiting lessons from one of our guys (for low wind days) but never quite got to that point.
Circumstances are still unclear, but to me it seems like a medical issue and not his skill or bad luck.. RIP... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhUlNDLZj20
That's nice but I'm talking three hundred miles North of NY/NJ. Nasty day here, very good kiters were staying off the water.
2 kiters ,2 differant location,boston mass area and nj. I'm in the middle and we were out on 5.5 's ,6's and 7's.It was one of the windiest days I've experienced in 18 years on a kite. I'm an anti-depower/trim guy but had mine pulled in 8"s . 220 lbs on a 7 maxed out.Sad story.