Mr float said...lotofwind said...The late Bob Dawson use to tell us stories of well before kitesurfing kites were around,or even thought of, he was trying to stack heaps of the biggest kites he could make together and try and water ski behind them out in the surf
If it wasnt for people like him trying/dreaming up all these sort of things and having the passion/craziness to get out there and have a go,
no of us would be enjoying the things we now take for granted.
RIP
he actually did.He came up with a stack of small delta kites that were easy to assemble and cheap and pulled like buggery .I've still got a stack of them .If you are lurking Steve what were they called .i can't remember .Anyway it's all good .I've found some water skis and am keen to have another shot at it in the waves .had a good seesion waveriding a Pl kite boat in bugger aall wind a few years back .hopefully this will top that .love the skis on the snow .you never know they could be really sumthin on the waves
Interesting tha CR recons kiteboards go upwind better on water than water skis due to less drag because of one rail .i find the oposite on snow (skis go upwind better due to the extr rails
Bob called those things blowflys, they had other names too, Bobs design was good, easy to make, pulled like a mack truck, and made a noise all good stuff back in the day.
I first went on the water, or in the water is a better way of putting it, in 97/98 with some cut down snow ski's glued to some hiking boots, unfortunately Goshen from KP Geelong threw them away in a recent clean up, bugga! I only went downwind, only went out in nuking frontal winds, and never went out much beyond the shorebreak. I ended up inventing wet sand skiing/Jebus walking, but it never took off!
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