Gday all Kiters!

im rosco and im fairly new to kiting, i did a $200 grom lesson at that whitfords beach and then went to queensland for a while and have came back with a 14m Niash X3.

so i still need a harness for a 32" waist and if anyone can help me rig up a donkey's dick or tell me where to get them that would be sweet.

im looking forward to kiting soon, so ill see ya out there.

Cheers

cheers mate, i was wondering what those cable ties were doing in my kite bag. nice idea. i think ill need a 9m, maybe a DNA or a FLOW, is there a site somewhere witha graph outlining max wind speeds for kite sizes?

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Originally posted by meerkat



in WA we have dry winds so the wind speed needs to be more than say cairns where the wind is heavier blah blah...

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you've definitely got that arse about mate

Welcome to kiteboarding$$$$$

Hey Meerkat,

Air with water vapour in it is lighter than air. Sounds counterintuitive, but true.

From here: peswiki.com/directory:enviro-mission-ltd-solar-tower
the more the air can be saturated with water vapor the lighter it will be

I'm always doubtful about the "Cold wind at 20 knots has more grunt than warm air at 20 knots" theory anyway, as well as the water vapour theory. To measure wind speed the wind has to hit the blades of a wind meter, so if it has more grunt then it will make the wind meter read higher, so as far as you can tell the "wind speed" will be higher. I fail to see how a kite and a wind meter would behave differently.
Also if you do the maths the difference between air at 10 degrees and air at 30 degrees is 3/8 of FA, the same goes for humid vs non-humid air.

kited in edinburgh, malaga, tarifa, invercargill, brisbane, byron bay, perth

windsurfed in cape town, gold coast, bali and done some skydiving in a few locations as well.

The humidity, number of dust particles etc all make a huge difference when wind comes into play. I don't understand fully, and to be honest it doesn't really matter. I just grab my kites and head to the beach when theres wind. I'll leave all the technical mumbo jumbo to other folk while i try and get my head around a handle pass. :)