Mate it's the time of good cheer, and you have so many worries. My advice is, Go to the beach and talk to a few kiters, go to the shops, and talk to the guys(these dudes started kiting in WA, and support it fully, and have to make a dollar like all of us)the shop guys all know kiting well, infact most of them rip. After a few days of talking you will have a head full of STUFF, but you will be wiser and then make a few decissions about what to buy. Maybe....... come down to the phone box at Cottesloe, hang out with all of us down there, pump all our kites up, launch us, and save our arses when we crash and burn, and after a couple of summers as our BOY, we may.... if you are lucky,lucky, lucky..... give you one of our kites.
A bit of Ha ,Ha,Ha,Ha,humor for 2004. Cheers every one