Kite-Boarding by May and Bill

Kiteboarding adventures, here (near our home in Stuart, Florida) and all-about.

Well - HEREEREREREERRER it is - the 'long-awaited-update' - (Friday, 25 May, 2007)  UpDate!!!

An 'embarassing personal note':
     TODAY was the FIRST DAY I'd been kiteboarding in about 2 months - since my 'accident' (banged-up-ribs (as a result of a STUPID JUDGEMENT CALL) in mid-March - when (for the first time in 5-6 years of kiteboarding) I mucked-up a 'landing' and impacted the ground at un-necessarily high-speed!) - ANYWAY....


Today was GOOD WIND (16-22 knots) about East at the US Sailing Center (where you can see ' real time wind ' courtesy of our web-site...

It was FUN to be on a TINY kite (7 meter - old-style) - and my (large, home-made) asymmetrical board...   My time on the water was brief (rain-squall came through).    I'd been watching the rain, so I was VERY near shore, and then I saw this 'gust-front' and promptly killed-the kite and walked back to shore.  After the gust-front, of course, there was NO WIND for about 30 minutes (just time for me to clean-up) and then there was More Wind - but then more squall lines and more gust-fronts - so I got the 'best' of it and it were 'good while it lasted'... - unfortunately, no pictures, no track-logs - though there is a BIG Laser Regatta at the Sailing Center this weekend... (Memorial Day Weekend)...

On the way, driving home, I went by "West Island" where there were a bunch of board sailors (bored sailors) standing around under the bridge (out of the rain) commenting on the wind and rain, and so-forth but on the 'state' of the great little park that the county government had made-up for us to go boardsailing from ...  - For more on the park - check-out the boardsailing web-page update.

last updated:    07:50 a.m.  on Saturday,  26 May, 2007;   revID:   1b      (in Stuart, Florida)