Saw one of these old kites on line. Anyone ever use one of these FB closed cell (water relaunchable) kites? Curious?

I heard they pull like a truck. If I remember correctly, the 3m pulls about as hard as a 4-5m standard fb.

I saw a guy at WWBB who was flying one of this in the buggy. I can't tell you anything about it except it looks like a bumble bee

I have the Peter Lynn Water Foil in the 2.4 and 3.6 sizes. I got them from this forum a couple years ago for around $100 each, KO. I fly them both on a bar with 3 lines. The 2.4 pulls harder than my Rage 2.5 in the same conditions. The 3.6 looks bigger than a 3.6M kite when laid out deflated. It looks closer in size to my 5M Riot or 6M B6. Even on a large bar the 3.6 turns slowly but is very powerful and somewhat lifty. It also needs to be fully inflated to fly well. I also had trouble getting the air out of the 3.6 when I was done flying. These are not my goto kites (I fly on land) and it seems like they may pop if crashed hard, but if I am ever on/near the water these should be fun to play with.


p.s. - I did read somewhere on a surf kite forum that ranked the PL Water Foil as the most dangerous kite ever made. Not sure why.


Jason

Was tidying up our cupboard in the loft this weekend. I have a quiver of all three of these - bought off a friend many years ago. But I can't say that I've ever really tried to fly them...

https://www.powerkiteshop.com/kites/peterlynnwaterfoil.htm

The ones I have are each in a different black/stripy colour - red, yellow and green.

This might be of interest. On Extreme kites they have "Death Kite Nomination" thread. The waterfoil is the Death Kite. Member nominate someone to fly it, and I think when they do, then they get to nominate someone.:D

https://www.extremekites.com.au/topic/16961-death-kite-nomin...

Haha - thanks for the link Randy! From the vids it doesn't seem to fly half as badly as I remember...I had a recollection of it being incredibly slow to turn. And really hard to turn once at the edges of the wind window. I bought the quiver partly as a favour to a mate and partly to try to have a more compact land-boarding set up than a pair of C-Quads...Suffice to say that I never got the confidence to actually use them with a board!

I have a beach trip (soft sand sadly) coming up in May...maybe I'll take the 2.4m along for a laugh...