Dont bother with one,, just learn to body drag upwind,, and get some lessons!

koma said...
Pros: none.
Cons: many.

I'd say there are a lot of people who agree with that, and the rest just have not been hit by their board yet...

NO.

Learn to body drag.

Board leashes are like L plates on a car. You look like a fool and incompetent, plus the bonus of getting cracked in the head when you stack.


If you cant bodydrag to get your board back you shouldn't be standing up.

Pros (for the rest of us) - Helps others know you are a kook and avoid you, and possibly helps humanity by removing you from the gene pool (cos if it doesn't kill you, just owning it will reduce your attractiveness to the point where reproduction is out of the question).

Cons (for you) - In case you are an otherwise OK human being who happened to be tricked into buying one, this gadget will stigmatise you to the point where you struggle to find someone to talk to at the beach, let alone give you a launch.

Ok & thanks for the tip. I understand! Lets move on.

...this gadget will stigmatise you to the point where you struggle to find someone to talk to at the beach, let alone give you a launch.

I hope i managed to talk someone into removing it from their seat harness after giving them a launch at St.K last weekend. I don't think the guy had actually used it though! It was like a horrible growth on his harness, feeding on ignorance, waiting to be surgically removed by experience and hindsight.

Kite reel, I thought he meant one of these



I've been doing this for too long.

GalahOnTheBay said...

^^^^ seriously what is that?

That's actually a kite reel used for deploying a two-liner in ~1997-98. AFAIK I don't think they ever made them for four liners, although i could be wrong.
I just assumed that when a newbie comes onto Seabreeze asking about a reel, they mean a board reel leash.