http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nasaskimbat/message/2030 This morning brought a trace of new snow and stronger wind than yesterday. Wings and sleds ran 3 course races successfully before breaking for lunch.The new snow was on the sticky side and the wind never really filled in and since these conditions favor lighter riders I was once […]
WISSA 2012: Day 3
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nasaskimbat/message/2029 I didn’t post yesterday as planned – after the skipper’s meeting it took some time to get our gear to the lake and set up. Then we spent the early afternoon sailing on the cleared ice practicing for the short track slalom before heading out onto the main lake […]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nasaskimbat/message/2028 My perhaps dangerously overladen Forester performed magnificently on the long drive here, 20 hours all told with the planned overnight stop in Cleveland. Morning found us back on the highway and we gobbled up the miles, did the RuShip and I, the way a hungry Pac-Man chomps down the […]
By Brendan Wedley, The Peterborough Examiner Put on skis, skates or a snowboard. Launch a kite. And start tacking up wind on Rice Lake during the fifth annual Snowkite weekend at Elmhirst Resort on Jan. 27 to 29. “It’s an up-and-coming sport,” said Steve Elmhirst, with Elmhirst Resort near Keene, […]
Ayyyup! (as they say in”Nam-sha” – aka New Hampshire)No one in this group was too fussed about the Republican primaries. We were more concerned with carving up clear ice while rocking the “wind in our fingers”. Wing sailing is like no other kind of sailing. It is not windsurfing, it […]
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Brainstorming Session Tuesday: How To Meet Hospitality Demands of Ice Sailing Championship By Mary Petrides With more than 100 athletes expected to compete on the ice of Moran Bay in the World Ice and Snow Sailing Association’s world championship in February — and national and international media reporters and […]
This has actually happened! After 30 years of winter sailing and racing in variety of venues and conditions our group of enthusiasts and champions have finally decided to combine our knowledge and skills to design and build a universal and affordable device suitable to anyone. MUST is designed for […]
Taken from popeyethewelder 1/2 Axel (Axle): (kite trick) a 2 line stunt kite trick that is a neat way of changing direction rather than a carved turn. At the edge of the window, having done a ground pass, release the top wing and then pop the same side. The kite […]