Ziggy, Dave Aikman and I finally got a day up at Wasaga beach here in Ontario. We can only get on the beach early spring and late fall so fall conditions are usually the best and then hitting weekend with a good NW doesn't give us too many chances to ride there. But it's a great beach with a long run - the wind was too west most of the day and we need NW. Late day it eased off a little after some dark clouds moved through and got a little more north in it which gave me a chance to do longer runs to try and video the beach for friends that stay on small fields and haven't caught a fall buggy session up there.
After viewing the video showing the longer run of the beach I saw it got a little condensation in the centre so a small foggy spot - I've uploaded a couple of videos but the shorter run#2 shows the fall beach conditions better - and I get to yell at Ziggy to stop packing up his kite because the wind had improved for a few more runs further up the beach.

http://vimeo.com/30659002

if you happen to watch the longer run at wasaga, at 3:13 I pass a picnic table which is where video #2 starts.

:eekdrull:

You.
Were.
FLYING!
Thanks for sharin!
:roll::wee:

Any info on wind speed and what kite you had up? Did you GPS it at all, curious to know what your speed was..

The winds started off at about 23 - 25 mph when we arrived so Ziggy launched a 6 Phantom and I took an 8m Synergy. The problem was the angle was diagonally onshore so going upwind you would need to do a long diagonal (good thing it was a wide beach) to get up some speed and if you had enough power you could get a better line upwind - then coming back it was so downwind you had to work the kite a lot and send it forward and back and watch not to over fly it etc - so as the wind built I kept thinking I should go to a bigger kite, you don't really feel the power going high upwind or running downwind. but we kept the same kites, I was hitting about 40 mph and Ziggy a little slower. Mid day a friend had a treed kite ordeal and that's when the wind really ramped up for a good half hour or more and Ziggy was getting faster runs while we watched from the tree ;-)
Anyway by the time I shot that video the winds eased back again and came at a better angle - still not the most ideal for getting speed and it was just comfortable probably running between 35-40mph downwind - it looks faster on the video.

So, you ever look at your kite ? Took me a long time to figure out what you were flying!

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