Here's what came out of kiteboard2b's kitewing suggestion. I used the frame of one tent, and the polytarp floor of the other tent. I rode down the street on my skateboard with it, and my god does it lift, when its level its kinda like ah crap this thing sucks, pop the AoA and it tears your arms off, its gonna pick me up for sure. I'm pretty happy, and it packs down and sets up in about 5 minutes. No battons, not sure if I will, its pretty nice as is. It has those 2 downtubes in the front now and that helps alot.

Here is the other side

OH YEAH! NOW THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT
RIGHT ON

You go dude!

Nick -

Cool. Does the boom twist side to side much? Look slike the kitewings have lateral struts that both brace the boom and give you extra places to hang on to.

Looks totally McGyver, like you just whipped together a prototype to get going. Ride on.

krumly

You never stop amazing me ! :wow:

Ride On !

Good job bro!

Cool deal Nick! I'd be interested to give that a whirl around the block.

I am looking at the pics from my phone so I can't quite tell, but it looks like you have no wingtip extensions? If not, find some flexible/strong material that you can slide into your frame ends, sleeve them around the sail, then add nylon webbing and a buckle to the end of the wingtip extension and the end of the sail. Pulling the sail tight like that will increase power and stability.

Good luck and watch the kitewing videos to learn how to turn, etc...

Yeah this is really become the test bed, I got to ride it today, and it was a really nice change from kiting! It was sooo much easier. Would be nicer on those high wind days, I can even take LE tubes out and have the frame work with 2 sized sails. I am going to go back and make the sail out of ripstop, and have it tight. And I need to replace one of the tubes where it kinked. And take extras with me next time!!!!

Ok so ripped off the tarp, and working on a nylon sail, and reinforced the frame where it broke and added better cross struts, ill have pics up later.

Sweet Nick, looking and sounding good! You might consider some Y-tubes that run from about where the bend in your mast ends up to the leading edge. This allows more comfortable handling plus will better performance all-around. Since it's a wing and not a sail and your body is the mast, it's better to have your leading edge hand above the powerful pivot point your trailing edge/sheeting hand becomes. This gives you a lot of leverage against the wing and gives the wing a more aerodynamic shape in the wind, which makes the wing awesome upwind. It also allows you to move your leading edge hand further up the Y-tube giving you more leverage and decresing the profile of the wing to wind. It pretty much serves as another AoA. Give it a try and see what you think :-)

Dude - if you ever get into your own manufacturing and need investment let me know. You're gonna go places man!

My kitewing 2.0 has the Y-tubes on it. They seem like they will help alot, and I think a tight nylon covering will be better than a loose tarp one. And I will have some reinforcment line from the bend on my mast is to the wingtips, it flexed alot when I used it. BUT ITS SO MUCH FUN!!!! :ticking: