Southerly breeze, some sunshine and blue sky in parts today.  The forecasts were about right with a base speed of about 4mph - 8mph.  Full 1.5 sails with race rods and a mid-vent, just because!  Nothing called as is usual but we did get to discuss events for 2020, just a bit.

We put together the Peter Malinski Flare Kite (ex Hamburg) with its substantial tubular frame in c120cm units, so c240cm high in the four vertical sleeved pockets with press stud closures and the c360cm horizontal secured by loops at the sail edges and substantial ties at two further points at the back of the sail.  The sail pulled tight very neatly and looked very flat overall.

The kite felt heavy on the ground but as soon as the windspeed threshold required was reached it took off like a rocket with a very smooth linear trajectory.

I very much like the ‘kite shaped’ (Eddy) graphic of this kite.  It should look very good with the early JMH Delta kite…

Felix