I watched Matt ride his Flysurfer Peak in moderate rain and it seemed to do well....after I had to put away my wet foil kite-as it could hardly fly.

it all gets so much cooler when the cheese meets the beach

Was great to see everyone yesterday. Been too long since I buggied out there with you guys, even if I did only ride for a few minutes. Thanks to Danny, for helping launch my Chrono for the first time. Brian, I miss you man. WW isn't the same without you. Genci, was great to to see you again. Tight lines til Oct...
https://youtu.be/dI1Wybuz7Qs

Nice to see a bunch of you made it out yesterday. I had eyed the day as a good one. Unfortunately I driving the car for 8hrs well watching the trees sway in the wind. Hope to make it out again soon.

Wondering if anyone in the Nahant crew wants to be part of a chat/text group to communicate gatherings and when its going off. I really miss the old email distribution list and I suppose that lack of hearing that people are getting ready for a weekend session or that one is going off in a few hours has stunted my interest in making the trek to Nahant for the past year or two. If there is interest, I could collect cell phone and contact info here (u2u) and then send out a group chat (standard data and message rates apply) and then those in the group chat would always know when other riders are out or getting ready to go. Could even post pics or vids. I'm not on FB and the email list is dead so just throwing the concept out to see if anyone is interested.

Very interested. U2U sent.

Some requests for a group email vs. text line. I'm OK either way and have no preference. Group emails work well for me but if you are on the recipient end you'll need to either keep the email to reply to or create your own distribution list once the email goes out. Whatever the majority decides - just let me know and I'll do what I can to set it up. I have most of the emails from the crew with the exception of those who have been added in the past two years.

u2u sent.

Planning to head out there around 6:30 am on Saturday if there is any wind to ride.

KONE @ Nahant beach with a packed beach and parking lot.....some tried to buggy. I scudded and jumped a bit in the 'caution' taped off 120' square buggy demo area :o With a big 10m and 13m borrowed FB kite in low, but steady ~7-8mph wind.. (give or take 1 mph)

That 13m (nor 10m) doesn't need much to pull (or lift) you!(thanks Dan And Genci)

Dan somehow-the pilot that he is- took guest riders on tandem thru the crowd of Bikinis, boogie boards and beach blanket bodies...

Nice day anyway...

Nice day to ride. winds 15-25... 20-30 degrees off-angle.

Yep. Today was an awesome day. Plenty of wind and from a good direction at getting some speed going one way. Even got to set a new PB. There were many people on water but no one else on land until my last hour when Skimtwashington came and it made for a very nice hour of riding side by side.

Sunday 11/17/18

Wind by afternoon was strong and gusty... like 12-24 mph... Couple riders on sand-Buggy and board - and me speeding thru parking lot on In-lines and NPW.


Matt on his ATB with a Peak:


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Man I wish I could make it out this Sunday. If the rain holds off it could be a pretty sweet day. Tide out with sunrise, tide back in with sunset forecast mid teens with gusts to mid 20s onshore!
Wish I could go.

Yep it looks awesome. They don't show any rain until latter in the afternoon, so a morning session will probably be awesome.

Wind on vacation last 48 hours

Visted Lake Q to test ice, skate. No wind. Heartbreaking


May have to continue to breach the beach until ice and wind sets up...then I'll see you on the lake!

Looks like rain will hold off till 2:30 on sunday 12/15 with east winds in the 20s. I''ll be there first thing in the morning. Monday looks great too for an all day session. Hope to see some of you guys there.

Wind was awesome today. Clean on shore winds in the mid teens. There were a lot of kites on the water but only 4 of us on land.



The good wind made for many runs in the high 30 mph and low 40 mph.
Got 78 miles in with a max of 45 mph.



What a day!

It was hard to keep up with you today GLX. Was great fun to ride with Pete, Paul, and yourself. Hopefully the winter will have more good conditions for us. :wee:

Dean, do my eyes deceive me or have you witched from Blades to LEIs?

I've had a 7 & 10 tube for quite a few years now. Much nicer when the winds are gusty. Today was east winds but we had some rain earlier and tubes don't get all soggy . Still prefer fixed bridle over depower on most days. N+1 you know. Truck is no longer big enough to carry everything:D.

Glad to see you all made it out and had a good day.

You were missed Mike!

heads up N.E...
going to Portsmouth for some lobster rolls and beer
if your headed out i think i can fly fri/sat...maybe sun
i can fit a board and a few kites but will have no bug
i expect those Nahant winds to be proper for a guest

Hi abkayak. Friday they are showing rain for most of the day. Saturday looks better but low tide is at 447 PM which means that the beach should be rideable around 1 pm. Winds look decent at 12-15 mph from the west. If you know for a fact you will be there around then I can swing by but unfortunately will not be able to ride because I need to pick up people at the airport around 3:30 PM.

A nice turnout today of seven of us. Me on my Coyote Rollerblades, B-Roc on ATB, and the rest riding buggies. Winds were predicted 10-20mph but were more like 16 - 29mph...

Not that punchy- wind would ramp up and stay way up for a couple minutes or so then drop back down for a minute or two. Glad I brought my smallest FB kites.

Lotsa fun. Still waiting to get on frozen, but this was great consolation.

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A nice turnout today of seven of us. Me on my Coyote Rollerblades, B-Roc on ATB...

The strange thing is, as I was telling Dan, over the past 2 years while my harness was sitting on the shelf, my spreader bar seems to have shrank an inch or two. Weird :dunno: :wink2:

Anyway, it was great to be back riding again. Here's some video of skimtwashington (our resident videographer who never makes it into the videos) and buggydan coming in hot.

Nahant was awesome today. Wide, flat, hard hardpack with very high winds.



Plenty of kites on the water but none on land.



Would have been an awesome day to set a new PB. Shame that the desire for more speed got to me a couple of weeks back.