Pigeon Point is your best bet by far then if you are novice with those size kites and prefer flat water. Windward side is never flat (but not large waves) and there are fewer options for guest houses/hotels there, unless you can spring for the Grand Magdalena! In which case you are staying right on ...

When I go home I usually bring 4.0 to 6.1 windsurf sails, so 6 to 12 m kites. Foil is ideal, will work for all breaks except maybe Boca which gets a fast and steep Hookipa-like wave in the years I've seen it go off. December winds can be good but very spotty, best seems to be February-June, better ...

Pat Bay is part of controlled airspace and although some folks may get away with it, proximity to 09/27's flight path and kiting on the active seaplane flight paths could get you a hefty fine if TC wants to be nasty or if there is a conflict. Not worth the hassle as conditions are not great but for ...

Ediz Hook in PA has an active airport (CG and emergencies only), so they take a dim view of kites in their airspace, but decent winds for big gear. Windsurfer I met here last year had a breakdown and drifted onto their property, not allowed to walk out on the runway/road, and had to risk walk/swim ...

Cool music - Cuban?

TonyT1000 - from your last post it appears that after three days of kite-school they had NOT completely explained right-of-way rules???? If this is so (kite-school people please weigh in here) this is a major f*%k-up and needs to be addressed. Would explain some of the conflict down in windsurfer ...

Been there from PA several times and done quite a few overnighters in area (it's under 2 hours from work to Lodge, 1.5 hours to first water.) Very iffy spot, need a BIG kite generally. Seems to be much better slightly further south at Ocean Shores or Westport, and a lot of daytrippers from Olympia ...

Yup - Tobago is super sweet. Great learner/big-gear wsurf/kite location at Pigeon Point (Bucco Reef) - which is why the big UK and German clinics are there every March. Radicalsportstobago.com. Awesome diving/snorkeling all up the Caribbean side of the Island, and for slightly more advanced divers ...

For a dive/windsurf (beginner/int) Bonaire is likely a better bet than Maui during December. Water will be warmer (definitely) and clearer (most likely) for diving in Bonaire, and December winds should be 12-18 in Bonaire, fickle in Maui as you know. Cayman Is or Turks & Caicos may be other choices ...

Ok so I went out again yesterday cause the winds were stronger then then day before. Thinking it would be good I went out. I got the mast up and only sheeted in enough to get moving forward. Then the wind would send a gust in a different way and cause the sail to push back to me sending me swimming ...

Landfill - nearest place is in South Carolina and they don't take from consumers (unless you've got 15 tonnes of scrap booms!) Please do not burn under any circumstance. Unfortunate downside to our industry now that only 3 places worldwide recycle cured carbon composite (US, UK, France.)

DWD - others are saying that the board with windsurfing does have a significant difference. I seem to remember a discussion on the SF Bay foilers about board design impacting getting lift-off and stability in pitch. I'll see if I can find reference.

Yeah - LP foils running 2K USD, but the real kicker is replacement cost of the broken bits after a reef ding or two! Still, RN knows his stuff and is a great marketer and product developer, so maybe not as painful a learning curve as we saw down at HR last year??

Triangle RV in Sidney (5 minutes from airport) has Class C rentals. There is an exclusion for un-improved roads so you'll be at your own risk, but units are nice. There's a good car-wash just south of Duncan (Shell station I think) large enough for drive under in an RV to get the Nitinat dust off.

Actually the glass layer which typically went under the box and then spread flat onto surface was for vertical impacts on fins/mast bases. The glass layer ties the box to the surface laminate so that when hit, the box (even with hi-density foam surround) doesn't press downwards into soft EPS foam ...