Thanks Rick.
Very interesting reading. Lots of good info.
Highly recommended to all kitesurfers.

Silviu, you promised you were going back to work!

You can run, but you can't hide.

I'm loving you're punchier posts though, keep it up mate, less is always more.

It's sh1thouse here too mate, unless you're up North where they are hooking up their lines to their girlf's g-strings and boosting big.

Thanks guys. Please check it out and think it over; I've been using this stuff for several years with some success. It isn't perfect but beats just "goin when it's blow'n." That seems to work for windsurfing (not lightning) but for kiteboarding it will get ugly at times as quite a few of us have learned.

Best wishes to all in the north coping with all these frequent cyclones. I hope your storm season ends fast! Been there and have done that in recent years and it's no fun. A few articles came out of that experience, hurricanes and kiteboarding, including:

A couple of commentarys about cyclones, kiteboarding and life ...

Hurricane Riding, A Story from KB Mag.
www.fksa.org/showthread.php?t=5726

Hurricane Katrina ... A Sea Story, A Submarine And A MOVIE PREMIER!
fksa.org/viewtopic.php?t=906


... and a modified collection of ideas for weather planning and monitoring around tropical systems and cyclones (WARNING: this is far from perfect and the hazard level can go way up. Some of the problems are illustrated in the following account)

STORM RIDERS
fksa.org/viewtopic.php?t=808


Good luck guys,

FKA, Inc.

transcribed by:
Rick Iossi