i made a frame from a 40mm* 1 m pvc pipe in wich i put 2 teslecopic poles
mast here is 4 meter long
i want to use a water relaunchable kite on this frame to go on water
Yup that looks like a dirt$urfer ( they aren't cheap ) and home made kite wing. There was a very good thread about a young fellow making a kite wing
on here.
They are very cool and right up tour alley Sadsack. You should look into constructing one.
Good video - like your ideas. I did something similar last year making a delta wing from a broken winfsurf boom and an old sail. Found I needed to
have a board with a centerboard to sail across the wind. Made a bigger one out of the top half of broken windsurf masts (the bottom is the part that
breaks and its hard to buy just that, so most windsurfers have some) but it became a bit unwieldy.
supwing didnt saw the title that s exactly what i want to do
i guess one day supers will use one
you could use it as a windskate http://windskate.com/
i also cant go upwind with my sup
tomorow i ll hav more wind
i saw your nasawing water relaunchabale can you explain how you build it ?
Also i wanted to buy a kayakite does it work on sup?
I used the supwing on my landboard - it worked fairly well for that - but it was pretty small. The bigger one was too big for land, but worked on
water - though a bit difficult. I got the idea from the windskate. The supwing worked pretty well on water with an sup. I got up to 7-8 mph when it
was windy. It actually jibed into the wind nicely. I used it (and the larger one) on the river by where I live. Worked pretty well there because
the current went against the wind, so going upwind and getting back down wind was pretty easy on my longboard windsurfer.
I actually got a Kayakite many years ago before i ever thought of traction kites. Used it it little but it didn't pull very hard. Recently though, I
tried it again. One really nice thing is you can launch it from the water. I don't see why you couldn't use it with a sup. I also figured out you
can make it two line and launch it from the water like a single line, then direct it some like a two line, then reel it back in like a single line. i
thought being able to steer it would help you keep from going dead downwind. I tried it last week and did have some success with it but the wind was
almost nothing at the time. I'll post a few video's I did. I think the Kayakite might be a good alternative, but maybe a bigger one would be better.
Seems to me its just regular sled kite. I'm planning to try it again next time the wind is right.
Here's one i did showing my first try (in years) with the Kayakite. (Not all that serious - this was using it as single line.) My board is kind of
like a sup - but pretty wide and short.
The water relaunch npw is standard 9b. I put foam tubes on the keel and in the nose. It worked in flat water right offshore, but I think using quad
handles on the water is not that easy to do, and waves and chop would probably make that less viable. i might go back to that eventually.
supwing didnt saw the title that s exactly what i want to do
i guess one day supers will use one
you could use it as a windskate http://windskate.com/
i also cant go upwind with my sup
tomorow i ll hav more wind
i saw your nasawing water relaunchabale can you explain how you build it ?
Also i wanted to buy a kayakite does it work on sup?
Yup that looks like a dirt$urfer ( they aren't cheap ) and home made kite wing. There was a very good thread about a young fellow making a kite wing
on here.
A parafoil can be flown with two line - just a matter of changing the bridles a bit and adding a line.
I'm hoping to make a go of it with the sled and dual line. I've tried it already and it does help you control the direction some. Not sure if it
could go across the wind, rather than down wind only.
The single keel NPW shown on the you tube can be made single, dual or quad line. I've built serveral dual/quad. Here is a link to plans, if you
don't have them. The single line plans are there in his posting of pictures. it requires an 'auto pilot' which is not complicated, but i've never
tried it. He also has plans for a dual line, but it works better to do it with an extra set of bridle lines.
Here is a youtube of my single keel used for pulling my landboard.
I'm heading to the Outer Banks and plan to try using the single keel with one of my windsurf boards. I'll report back. i have a lot of single keel
NPW vids on my youtube channel, including one with Sean and me.
If you are interested in making a single keel NPW send me a U2U - I can send you some plans and tell you how to make them. They are the easiest NPW
to make, far easier than the conventional models because there are no nose darts, less bridles, fewer seams.
15 sqm sounds pretty big to me. Would be about 4.5 meters tall. I don't know if you have seen this, but it seems like what you are working towards -
kite on a stick.
Thé wing tips when inflated keep their shape so they dont need to be framed.
Hère thé mast ils 250 cm long I guess i can use a 8 m gênesis with a 4 meter mast
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