i was out in drenching rain couple of days ago in low end wind for the kite i was using. The wind died and i hang around a bit in the rain. Wind picked up to what it had been but kite wouldn't relaunch. Wind picked up more and got the kite up but it was struggling. Finally gave up

I'm guessing the rain had added a bit of extra weight that means you need to factor in a few extra knots for low end wind? it was 17m zephyr so fair bit of canvas

... I was on holidays in Vietnam a few years ago during their wet season when a rain storm came through that was soooo heavy (we get big storms in Darwin but this was incredible) and it dropped visability down to about 50m and the water looked like the inside of a cave with millions of stalagmites everywhere, or the surface of some comet. The kite flew with a huge wobble in the bar with each sweep. The cool thing was the wind got steady, albeit light, and the freaky looking water with rolling swell underlying! I've kited many storms but this was something else!

The other cool thing, I had a white canopy Rhino with blue leading edge and struts and with the background of super heavy rain, the kite looked like the a skelaton of struts and leading edge only, I couldn't really see the canopy. Optical illusion but way cool.

Anyway,

cheers,

Robbie

Hey! Don't you go making sense with your "science" !!!

I bet you're one of those people that subscribe to the theory of gravity!

Puetz said...

... I was on holidays in Vietnam a few years ago during their wet season when a rain storm came through that was soooo heavy (we get big storms in Darwin but this was incredible) and it dropped visability down to about 50m and the water looked like the inside of a cave with millions of stalagmites everywhere, or the surface of some comet. The kite flew with a huge wobble in the bar with each sweep. The cool thing was the wind got steady, albeit light, and the freaky looking water with rolling swell underlying! I've kited many storms but this was something else!

The other cool thing, I had a white canopy Rhino with blue leading edge and struts and with the background of super heavy rain, the kite looked like the a skelaton of struts and leading edge only, I couldn't really see the canopy. Optical illusion but way cool.

Anyway,

cheers,

Robbie

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