Re: Avoiding Rhinoplasty: SI report, editorial on kites

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Date: Tue Aug 29 2000 - 18:13:02 PDT

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Subject: Re: Avoiding Rhinoplasty: SI report, editorial on kites
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The skinny masts are very easy to tack, grab onto, save blown moves. They
are lighter and make the whole rig feel much lighter and more responsive.
I use skinny masts for my 3.7/4.2/4.7/5.2 sails. I still have 'normal'
masts. After sailing on the skinnies, the normal masts feel like telephone
poles while doing transition moves.

Sherman Island has been rocking last two mornings (for dawn partols).
Today's dawn patrol was the best one of the season. I started on 8.2(open
ocean)/4.7. Had to rig down, yup a 210 lb dude rigging down, to a 4.2
which was perfect. The swells were big and very easy to ride. They were
so large that in between the swells the water was smooth. Awesome
direction for jumping. The season is coming to a close: it's coler in the
morning, the light has that fall feel to it, you have to wear coats/hats
during the day.

One last observation: kites are so frigin dangerous. Today a guy who is
sponsored by Wipika - and is one of the best kiters I've seen in the
mainland - was shredding at the access. Since there were no more then 5
people sailing he was riding in the same area as sailors. The air he was
pulling off was truly amazing. While he was at the apex of his jump a good
sailor jumped. The sailor reached 1/3 of the way of the soaring kiter -
cool.

On one of his jibes in the playpen - small area by the launch - he blew a
line. Now I know that we all break gear - some more then others - but with
kites there is more "damage to others" potential. His kite went out of
control onto the beach, slammed hard on someones rig, lauched itself and
hammered another board/sail on the beach. I helped the dude catch his kite
to prevent more damage. As cool as kiting looks, I wish that kite sailors
would stay up/down wind of sailing areas.

Zeev.

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I just picked up a high end carbon sandwich style board that won't take the
thumping my old bic sandwich boards will. So the question is, how do I sail
hard including trying tricks, backwinding, and catapulting without cracking
the nose to pieces? I run my boom high enough to avoid boom head strikes,
but
when I was in Maui I put some minor crunches in the JP board from the mast
hitting the side of the nose. I don't want a deviator beacuse I want to be
able to tack step right in front of the universal.

Yesterday I tried strapping a mast foot pad under the boom to soften mast
strikes. It seems to work out well but it makes it hard to grab the mast
below the boom for tacks and saves because the pad is so bulky. I'm now
wondering whether a move to a skinney mast might be part of the solution.
My
first thought was the lighter rig would do less damage, but then again the
narrower mast puts the force into smaller area.

I'm wondering if there might be a good way to pad the skinney mast to
protect
the board while still making it grippable for tacks and the like. Even with
padding, the skinney would be a nice diameter to grab. Maybe I could use a
longer piece of the clear tubing material that is used to allow a regular
boom head to grip a skinny mast... let it hang down an extra foot and tape
it
in place.

How are skinneys to tack anyway? Are they harder to grab onto?

Peter

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