While kiting yesterday arvo i was coming in to jibe in the shore brake not more than 3 meters from the beach. as i went into the jibe a seal the size of my surf board appeared right in the line off the turn.
i ended up over the top of him as i stalled the board as to not hit it and he came out from under the board out of the water about 2 feet teeth raised an all. he took of one direction and i swooped the kite down wind and got the hell out of there laughing all the way and i think out of fright.
came in about hour late and the **** stain had washed of.

Ugly said..
While kiting yesterday arvo i was coming in to jibe in the shore brake not more than 3 meters from the beach. as i went into the jibe a seal the size of my surf board appeared right in the line off the turn.
i ended up over the top of him as i stalled the board as to not hit it and he came out from under the board out of the water about 2 feet teeth raised an all. he took of one direction and i swooped the kite down wind and got the hell out of there laughing all the way and i think out of fright.
came in about hour late and the **** stain had washed of.

Great experience !
One question for the kiters and sailors, do you jibe a kite ?
Me thinks not

Mark _australia said..
Question also is when did it cease to become "gybe"

Jibe - U.S., Gybe - British (or English if you prefer), guess we're becoming more and more Americanised or should I say Americanized? I don't think many people eat biscuits anymore either, even Subway sells cookies .

While kiting some years back in light winds I noticed something about 15m upwind yellowish in colour slumped in the water, looked like a human body face down, flesh discoloured from water and decay. It was about 500m offshore.

With heart in mouth I struggled to get back upwind in light conditions contemplating dragging a dead body to shore. After 10 minutes of short tacking I managed to get close enough to see it was just the foam out of an old car seat, I have never been so relieved...

had a seal experience on the windward side of garden island in the late 70's.
mate and I sailing a flying ant with open stern . baot suddenly tilted aft and a freakin seal slid up onto the deck .
scared the bejesus out of us all . seal shot straight off the bow.
later that day coming home a dolphin came up under the boat and almost capsized us . i reckon he'd been tlking to the seal and decided to continue the days fun.
i do wonder now if the seal was trying to get away from a shark, even though they were almost extinct back then

I've seen footage of a kiteboarder both tacking and jibing on a foil board. Its a fine line between a jibe and a backroll-transition.

shoodbegood said..

Great experience !
One question for the kiters and sailors, do you jibe a kite ?
Me thinks not

The kite's easy, but gybing the board is fricken hard! (directional)