May 2009

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Old Crantock Beach is a notoriously fickle place to kitesurf. It is a good high tide spot in comparison to what is on offer in the local area, but you do need to be minute perfect with the tides. Today, high tide was at 1930, but, it keeps rattling in hard until a little later [...]

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Celine Collaud is a lovely Swiss kitesurfer (now resides in Egypt) who is going out with me mate Will, a scruffy Cornish kitesurfer (now resides in St Mawgan). Today, we all met up at the flat-water-sometimes-pointbreak Mecca that is Daymer Bay, near Wadebridge. Wind was about 18knots, nice and flat with a bit of chop building as the [...]

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Many people wonder what effect, if any, sea breezes will have on their kite trips to Cornwall. It’s true that Cornwall doesn’t get anywhere near as strong a seabreeze as some places, and this is because the peninsula can only heat up so far inland before you reach the other coast, and the same thing [...]

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We all want to appreciate the sea as much as possible, and I find for me it helps if I build a bigger picture of what is actually going on out there. Somedays it’s nice just to take the camera, get a few snaps, and see things from a different perspective. That way, the next [...]

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If you ever get the feeling that the sheen of kitesurfing is starting to rub off, if the sport really is addictive as you first thought, one of the best things to do must be to pass a kite over to someone who has yet to fly one. Very soon you start to realise what [...]

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It’s been a while since I updated the blog, didn’t realise how long it had been…18 days; terrible!
 Righto, the first significant event of the last three weeks was the BKSA Kiteival Round 1 at Swansea. I won’t give you all the deets on who won what, because you can find all that on the BKSA [...]

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The wind has been building all week, and the swell with it (apart from yesterday which was just quite chunky but with little wind). It’s good to see those classic winter conditions we’ve come to appreciate so much stretching their way into May, which of course means instead of grey skies and freezing water, you’re [...]

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Today we (the missus and I) went to Watergate Bay to catch up on some testing for Powerkite Magazine. I’m very happy at the moment because I have a lovely quiver of foils comprised of the new Peter Lynn Twister II (3.0 and 5.6), the new Peter Lynn Core (2.3 and 5.1), HQ Beamer 4 [...]