i recon the ISAF is just having a tantrum that a sport which is 10 years old got to 50kts quicker than sailing, and using gear priced around $2000 as opposed to a carbon fibre cat with 2000 sponsers

mick91 said...

i recon the ISAF is just having a tantrum that a sport which is 10 years old got to 50kts quicker than sailing, and using gear priced around $2000 as opposed to a carbon fibre cat with 2000 sponsers

I reckon the custom kite and board the guys use for speed records might add up to a bit more than $2000.....

kitecrazzzy said...

pfft, the money is peanuts comparative to that spent by the yachts

Fair deuce, but the point I was trying to make was that the guys setting speed records on a kite aren't exactly riding off the shelf standard gear...

sofled said...
would that mean my sailnig insurance would cover me in kiting.... be pritty good

LOL, I wish! The cover you get though Sailing NSW/Aus is pretty good. I've still got it for my offshore sailing stuff but it's looking like I'm not sailing for the next year or so.

Bit of a bummer.

lostinlondon said...

kitecrazzzy said...

pfft, the money is peanuts comparative to that spent by the yachts

Fair deuce, but the point I was trying to make was that the guys setting speed records on a kite aren't exactly riding off the shelf standard gear...

Ha, the only thing their riding that would cost that much extra would be the boards, which means there spending around 5-7k (max.) on boards instead of 1k.

As I said on Kite forum ISAF tends to screw over anything they don't understand

swoosh said...
do you consider yourselves sailers?

I've been sailing pretty much most of my life and started kiting 3 years ago, I consider kiting as sailing.

From the IKA website:

The International Kiteboarding Association is the ISAF approved world governing body for the sport of Kiteboarding.

internationalkiteboarding.org/

Monday, 24 November 2008 11:29

The International Speed WIndsurfing Class (ISWC) and the International Kiteboarding Class Associstion (IKA) officially acknowledge kiteboarders as rightful speed sailing outright world record holders. Kiteboards fully qualify under the ISAF Equipment Rules of Sailing and the WSSRC rulebook for the outright record.

Although the WSSRC feels to be bound by an ISAF policy from former years, when kiteboarding was neither compliant with the Equipment Rules of Sailing nor being an ISAF international class, the only possible conclusion under the actual rule situation and in the spirit of true sportsmanship is to acknowledge the performances of Alexandre Caizergues, Robert Douglas and Sebastien Cattelan, all with runs of more than 50 knots during this years Luderitz Speed Challenge as the speed sailing outright record.

We have been consulted by WSSRC and ISAF to help and try resolve the issue and ensure good sportsmanship is uphelp.

I don't think that a kite is a sail either but that is not the object of the exercise. The object is to be propelled across the surface of water under the power of wind i.e. sailing.

So when a yacht puts up a spinnaker (kite) is it still sailing or is it now kiting?



I agree with sunseeker

sunseeker said...

I don't think that a kite is a sail either but that is not the object of the exercise. The object is to be propelled across the surface of water under the power of wind i.e. sailing.

^ You need more than wind, dude......

I reckon the word you're looking for might be "vicariously"....

Kiters took the 50+ knots sailing record 3 times. Everyone knows it.

INTRESTING POINTS ............

TO ME

Fully Powered by wind only and on a body water = World speed record.

hYDRO SAIL/WINGED CRAFT
SKIMM SAIL/ WINGED CRAFT
KITE SAIL /WINGED CRAFT
WINDSURF SAIL /WINGED CRAFT
mONO SINGLE SAIL /WINGED CRAFT

all the same isnt it ???????



Funny judgement to me....... windsurfing suffer similar judgments before the yatching community could understand even the concept.


Silly really But say a hangglyder was flying along the surface of the water at 60 knots and skimmed/ HELD something in the water and recored a time ?

What about sail powered craft on ice ?

And the makeup of the water body this record was achieved on ?????


Ps oh oh another kite mere