Hi,
It's a sad day... yesterday my first kite, 12 days old (!!) ... got chewed by two F*** dogs....
It as as a 5 cm hole now... do you think that if I have it repeared will fly as normal???
It is a Ozone IMP quattro 3.5.
... I'm grieving today... it's a process...B-Roc - 13-9-2009 at 05:22 AM
If you have it professionally repaired, it will fly as good as new. Where is the damage, you may be able to fix it yourself with proper tapes or sail
repair glues.acampbell - 13-9-2009 at 06:19 AM
It will fly good as new.burritobandit - 13-9-2009 at 09:28 AM
A dog put a 6inch rip on a wingtip of my 6.5m Blade IV and I repaired it with sailtape on both sides of the rip. It flies just fine furbowski - 13-9-2009 at 09:59 AM
I've got a couple of little 2" rips in the wingtips of my 5m ace, guess I'll fix them sometime, but in the meantime it flies just fine... I take
better care of my better kites, but I've had to fix a coupe minor rips.
5 cm sounds minor, really, even if it is a ragged hole over over a rib very careful sailtape job can fix it fine. 5" might be possible to fix with
sailtape, but then you'll need to take care with it and check it lots. Any bigger than 6" yes you'll need stitching.Drewculous - 14-9-2009 at 07:27 PM
two words... pepper spray!! (loose/wild dog of course)
There are way to many nasty dogs around here... lots of pitbulls! Strays around here are really bad news... especially if they are near my kites!!!
I would send it off for repair... and have the dog's owner pay for it! That would make me sooooo mad! uince81 - 16-9-2009 at 01:54 AM
Unfortunately I checked the kite after the attack and I didn't see the scratch.. when I launched it and noticed it the owner was long gone
And now maybe I will have to stay 2 weeks without flying!!!
Any way...
I'm in a good mood... my first board is on is way!!! a Silver reef series 2 :D :D
If there is no kite.. this weekend downhill!!!! :DBeamerBob - 16-9-2009 at 02:56 AM
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Originally posted by burritobandit
A dog put a 6inch rip on a wingtip of my 6.5m Blade IV and I repaired it with sailtape on both sides of the rip. It flies just fine
Where was the dog buried?:ticking:Drewculous - 17-9-2009 at 10:33 AM
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Originally posted by BeamerBob
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Originally posted by burritobandit
A dog put a 6inch rip on a wingtip of my 6.5m Blade IV and I repaired it with sailtape on both sides of the rip. It flies just fine
Where was the dog buried?:ticking:
Downhill is fun... wear pads tho, i learned that pretty quick... :roll:
