What were the wind conditions for this. Very novice kiteracer - but seemed everyone was riding fully powered upwind. Wouldnt there be advantage to going up a kite , or are downwinds really power reaches and not true downwinds?
knot_moving wrote:What were the wind conditions for this. Very novice kiteracer - but seemed everyone was riding fully powered upwind. Wouldnt there be advantage to going up a kite , or are downwinds really power reaches and not true downwinds?
Downwinds are true downwinds - 45 deg off true downwind on 17-15sqm kite and 10-15 deg off on 7sqm kite (you just need to loop it a lot).
The guys chose the best size possible. Most of them really know the game
longwhitecloud wrote:if 8 kites go down at start (as happens here - 7 in tangles) is there a general recall?
Depends on the jury. 7 out of 40 is not even 20% of the fleet. I wouldn't recall.
Wow that's a lot of tangles! This is more than usual right?
Why was everyone going all the way to the land after each start? Trying to avoid the current? Seems like the wind would be lower right up against the shore.
Tone wrote:
I wish I had water that flat to train on. where I live, unless it is <10 knots, we have 2ft short chop the whole time.
I have been in flat water once and it was a revelation!
We usually have 2ft chop at Crissy too What you're seeing there is a string flood tide making the water flat. It also takes a few knots off the wind speed, plus the wind where they're tacking is super gusty and horrible. I have trouble sailing (and sometime keeping a kite in the sky) there at all, and I have no idea how they tack and get up to speed so fast in that area!