Please don't let him take off without having learned how his global position device works!
also make sure that he has a valid insurance for his rescue!
and I assume he is able to speak some basic arabe....
andreas

Louis Tapper 2000km story here:
http://yakers.co.nz/2011/10/09/kiteworl ... he-flow-2/

Update from Maciej:

Dear Friends,

I am still waiting for permission from army, which supposed to be ready on Sunday. If it's good wind I'll go on Monday. I will keep you informed. I know that most of you are crossing your fingers from a long time but to cheer you up, I already have a grey hair...

Greetings,

Maciej Zimowski

Tapper has it.
I didn't understand why Guiness didn't register that .

What was his longest nonstop journey?

After many trials, few months preparation and big effort, finally I need to officially postpone the action because of politic changes in Egypt. I didn't get permission to go, so I need to respect it. Nowadays army is very careful with this kind of events and nobody wanted to take a responsibility for signing my documents.

But no worries, I won't waist all I've done already. I will beat this record, just another time.

Thank You all for a great support, hope you will be still with me for the next time. I will be always ....Looking for the summer....at work and in life.

Greetings,

Maciej Zimas Zimowski

P.S. Here is the link to the last movie production http://www.humaneye.tv/en/videos/guinness-world-record-semi-live/video/326/

What Mike could do instead - if he is a wave rider - is do a review of the different sizes of the Infinity Wave.
There is only one review so far - of the 6' 1".

Might be a biased review, but as long as we know he is sponsored.

Good luck to the guy.
The area he will be kiting through has lots of pitfalls and so much could go wrong.
Firstly no boat will be able to follow.
lots of predators there and the live bait effect is not to be neglected.
winds will be very different from a to b.
stray bullets are also to be considered,
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I have sailed through there and respect the effort, but not the risk taken.
Nico
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