Well what an epic day, truly classic downwinder, meself, coil, waxhead and fatso had a great downwinder from Torquay thru the heads and landed safe and well at St Kilda today. Left Torquay in a 20-25 knt southerly, hit the heads 1 hr later and got to St Kilda in another three hours. Not sure how far but we was knackered. Thanks to the support crew in the rubber duck who supplied us with cold stubbies on the way. Next northerly we will backtrack, all welcome, byo stubbies.
What kind of boards do you guys use for these epic downwinders? Something with a bit of flex I should imagine.
I remember seeing some guys in 2000 crossing the English Channel with kites - they had mega long speed boards...almost as long as a sail board - only useful if you're just crossing a body of water as opposed to a downwinder in Surf.
It's approximatly 90Km give or take so i guess you would have covered about 100km. More interesting is how many beers you consumed in that time. I think we should make some sort of kite record for the most amount of beers drunk while kitesrfing from Torquay to StKilda!!!!!!!
Gear used: 2 x 11m sonics, 1 x 13m furia, 1 x 14m vegas, 3 x ug flx and 1 x crazyfly, wetty's x 4, backpacks x 2, stubby holders (with strap) x 4. 1x zodiac, 1 x large esky, 1 x driver, 1 x token bikini clad wench.
dam thats an awsum done winder,ive just moved over to perth from the sands torquay,will be coming down in the next couple of months for a bit and would love to join ya on the downy
There are many ways of getting out of Torquay. Myself, I moved to Perth. Always wanted to kite the heads, full points to you. Did you choose a time with a flood tide or just phang it when the wind was up? But I must say, 3 hours from heads to top of the bay is going. Were the flatties biting?
, I hope it had a support boat 
