First of all, I want to reassure you: when I get in the way of people trying to ruin the day for others by being upwind and in the way, I use the older rig. Hope that reassures you. I'm not picking on kiters, just that they're the only ones doing that. Once many years ago, a windsurfer didn't want to yield on port tack and I held my upwind. Was fun, we had a beer afterward. Not all crowds are new to watersports and crybabies, you see.
Someone was saying that experienced kiters were out of the way and safe: this is strange, the very few times I had fun on your forum, I thought you guys had concluded that well-publicised accidents were happening regardless of level. But you're right that experienced types are no problem to others once they cleanly sail away.
A previous poster (the one who can spell, forgot the name) was saying most kiters are out of the the way. Well, on certain days it's half of them learning and in the way. Or worse, having a chat with the lines dragging. I find 'schools' do that too. Aren't 'schools' supposed to be run by experienced kiters ??
Why they'd get upwind of launching areas all the time for that, I don't know. Lotofwind, since you approve and find that funny, you should explain. As I was saying, I think they want to avoid being blown onto the shore, create room and not walk far. Perhaps they simple lack common scents, as some previous challenged poster wrote (too many times being blown into trees??). Perhaps they're the same larrikins that got a beach closed nearby here a couple years back. Seems to me, they look the same.
On a 5-mile ocean shoreline with side winds, it's not a problem - there's room to walk away.
On an on-shore wind on a shallow beach, you don't have the choice but to brush off with those.
The couple main sailing spots here have a small departure area. In many years, I never saw windsurfers runs into mast or lines. People getting in the way all the time is a recent phenom - guess what changed.
"Lasting long at your local": do you even know of the typos in your tattoos? Anyways I've seen as many kiters run into each other in this case (since they can't depart either), so I seem to be a very minor problem to kiters... Just look at your forum sometimes LOL.
NEVER never saw a problem with sailors of all types stay a reasonable, safe distance from one another. Never. That includes kiters.
BTW, why is your prose competing with windsufering, are you the same guy ??
(no offense w-sufering !)
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