A knock came on the door which flew me out of bed. Typical Daddy, 06:30 wake up meant 06:00 for him, which in the end was a good thing as we had some difficulties getting the B-to-Talkings to connect to each other. (Still getting used to the three way communication setup, compared to just between the two of us).
High tide at the club beach, with the little bit of swell meant there was almost no beach to launch from. So we loaded the car to double check the marina beach. This was also under a wind shadow but had the added hazard of a break water reducing the launching area. So club beach it was going to be. As we had Uncle Craig and Mummy in the rescue boat, we decided to try drifting the kites out of the bay until we caught some wind. It ended up being a long drift.
We wanted to take the kite pump with us on the trip, so Stew attached the pump to his board and sent this on ahead of him (by which time I was being teased by the wind being not quite enough to launch). Luckily this strange yellow object was spotted floating out and was picked up, including the board, leaving Stew to only think about his kite.
Sixteen minutes in, as I remember looking at my watch, and my kite flops to back onto itself upside down, and I struggle to get it in the air. This gave Craig the opportunity he was waiting for to play rescue. Skillfully maneuvering the boat so Mummy could flip it right way around, it just go caught on a radar nob poking up from the top of the boat. Quickly jumping up to free it, Craig freed my kite, leaving it perfectly in the C-shape ready to go. Unfortunately in the commotion, i’d managed to fly it inside itself, so got practice passing my bar through itself, while undoing my safety, but still holding onto the board and kite. Mental note for next time..it might be easier to have a spare safety on for next time.
Eventually we both got our kites in the air, with a big cheer all round (as we’d got the 3-way radios working by now). But the wind was light, and both of us were struggling to get going. After fighting it for a while, and with a squall coming in, we decided to abandon our plans for a longer travel around the island.
In hind site, the weather was predicted to be shifty for the day, so wasn’t ideal for it. But with limited time window it was worth the go, and although we barely made it out of the bay, we still learnt a lot:
- Today was the first day I wore my contacts on the water which worked well
- The first day we had hydration packs on (which was strange while we were swimming as being only half-full, they added some flotation to our backs)
- And was good practice doing water pack down and rescue. I almost made a friend as I landed on someone’s beach and had to tiptoe round below the high water mark to be picked up again.
- Besides reminding us to be careful on offshore wind, the biggest lesson we learnt, was Fruit Pastels don’t like salt water 🙂
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