Was out having a bash at Leigtons in front of the surf club last night.

Not bad, bit gusty and on and off close to shore.
A guy came out at about 5.30 with a red kite.(Not sure of the brand but it had 2 big white circle shapes on it) When I went in as the sun was going down he'd pissed his kite about 300m off the beach.

He struggled for about 30minutes while we were packing up and he was gradually being blown toward Cott. It was gettign dark and really cold.

The some clubbies went out to him on their surf skis, they were out training. And then they launched the Duckie to rescue him properly.

Nice work to the Leightons SC crew. Had a word to one of the guys and it happenns a fair bit he said, a couple of times a week.

Apparantly the guy who got into trouble was German. His girl was on the beach and she was looking pretty worried. Sunset is not a good time to be floating around trying to relaunch and/or self rescue.

It's changed my opinion of clubbies though - I love you guys! Nice work.

Cheers Airhead,

I had heard there was something going on at Leightons, but as none of the clubbies had said anything to me, I haven't been too worried.

Will stick to the over pass area from now on.

It's gonna be too sketchy there once summer kicks in anyway. I hate kiting around families and kids, way too much potential for disaster.

Thanks for the tip.

I've noticed a few newbs down at Leighton lately. Hope all the learning is going well! Does anybody know where you can get a map showing what areas of Perth are banned to sail craft like ours over the summer?

Problem is that the bans on surf craft, etc are local council by-laws and there is no single coordinating body. Even Surf Life Saving WA probably won't be able to tell you because operations are local club based.

If you know of useful info like this why not email it to [email protected] so they include it in their proposed site guides.

Actually Alex Bell has been putting in a lot of work to bring these to fruition. Should be on the waksa.org.au website very shortly.
Graeme

ahahaha..of course those french boys inspired Ash!! Naa she's real keen to kick start her kiting, will be good to have a crwe out this summer! Yeah got sunday off so will be about no doubt when she blows in
See you on the water mate