North Wales Thread

[Nemesis]

Happy Birthday El's looking forward to seeing you in that new RS buggy, and to see you overtaking Eddie

What a pleasant evening, not an enormous amount of wind at first , it picked up about 8pm. Yet again buggy's outnumbered boards, the fun was watching Rob Hills & Adam kite jousting, hard to say who won in the end.

I had enuf trouble coping with the whiplash trying to look over my shoulder to see who was creeping up behind me. alright not creeping clocking it at a fair rate of knots.

Good crowd turned up and plenty of shenanigans going on,

Playing pass the kite handles or extreme handle tossing was hilarious, throw a pair of handles at someone whilst the kite is in the air see if they can catch them before loosing the kite. Plenty of running after one handle and untangling going on. Credit to Martyn for being the best catcher
Cheers everyone, a promising start to a good social event and nice sunset to finish off.
Nem
PS Eddie you and El's might bump into Ian (Photographer - kite Jam) in Caberette Dom Rep as he's out there taking photos of the events.

[garykf]

Hi guys, just been heard that my step daughter, who is now living in Prestayn and working for the local council, has somehow mananged to blag a powerkiting session for 20 local school children during the summer hols down at the nova centre. Who's the lucky bugger that has been talking to her????

[Nemesis]

Happy Birthday
Eddie

[Maverick440]

Happy Birthday Eddie....................

Where ate we at this weekend chaps, looks like an early low tide...
Need to get some practice in before Shell Island..................

[animal_69]

goin Wakestock in a fortnight (wkend 15th Jul)..anywhere to play down that way (Abersoch)..?? Was pondering takin a ride round to Shell Island if the tides are right..but it looks a fair trek round following the coast..

[highflier5]

thanks guys for that
el has just had her new buggy turn up today on her birthday she is well pleased with it
will look forward to seeing her over take me on the beach soon
we will both see you on the beach very soon
take it easy
laters

[sonicseal]

Hi guys, just been heard that my step daughter, who is now living in Prestayn and working for the local council, has somehow mananged to blag a powerkiting session for 20 local school children during the summer hols down at the nova centre. Who's the lucky bugger that has been talking to her????

Was it booked through Turbulence? We do quite a bit of that knid of thing but more Llandudno way.
Perhaps it's been booked and I'll not get told until a week before.
On many of the groups, they have all ticked the box to express interest in kiting, so all 30 kids leave stoked having flown a powerkite and maybe got it looping.

Nik - Some big open fields just near the camping areas last time I went, when it blows it howls across nicely.
Abersoch/Pwhelli is tight with powerkites and would be more stringent WakeStock weekend.

Ed & El -

HAPPY BIRTHDAYS
TO YOU BOTH

[SandMonster]

...ifa anyone sees (or knows) savagebob, can you give him a nudge to check his PMs about the P15 he's selling, ta!

[peteb303]

Happy B'day Ed . Hope you had a good one.

Any news on Shell island is it still on for next weekend?

[Spiritflier]

Flippin' hell Pete... There's a thread on here about it!

We're all set to go. Have a read of the thread and you'll see what's going on.

Are you coming now?

See ya soon,
Si

[peteb303]

Flippin' hell Pete... There's a thread on here about it!

We're all set to go. Have a read of the thread and you'll see what's going on.

Are you coming now?

See ya soon,
Si

Should be able to make it, going to try and avoid work if i can

[SandMonster]

If you don't fancy Shell Island... you could have some Big BoLS....

http://www.aospkc.org.uk/index.php?page=events

Ta

[chalkline]

hey you guys.
not been on here in ages, no computer at the moment, so doing this through telepathy. pretty clever me.
well booked my time off and will be up in wales from the 2nd to the 12th of august. so please save some wind for me, i will try not to injure myself this time too.

paul, spoke to wareck, finally, about snow kiting, but he only went on about italy, but still not managed to tell me the site. bloody useless french!!!

[highflier5]

hey guys i hope you have a good time out at shell island this weekend we will think of you as we are in dom rep this week
unfortunatly 3 days late for the kitesurfing championship oh well there you go
we will see you all when we get back home
with a bit of luck we will have some good wind so we can get some flying in
take it easy and we will see you all soon
laters

[sonicseal]

Lee :-) No worries, it was easy to find the hotspots, no problemo.
I'm about that 2 weeks your here, just before I go on a possible europe tour.
Come up for another injury

Buggered now, been out on land all afternoon and then swapped boards to go on the water. Good to do the 2 sessions but I'm very rusty on the kitesurf.

Rain is due Saturday evening

[chalkline]

Lee :-) No worries, it was easy to find the hotspots, no problemo.
I'm about that 2 weeks your here, just before I go on a possible europe tour.
Come up for another injury

i am hoping to miss out on the injury part!!!
but then going by my track record over tha last 12 months and the fact that i have not been to A&E for a while, i guess the odds are against me

[Nemesis]

Rain is due Saturday evening [/quote]

Understatement of the year - Newsflash - Shell Island suffers Typhoon !!

Friday by the light of the silvery moon some folk braved the beach - Dave still singin Two wheels on my wagon la la la ....
Saturday ++ on the beach after the mandatory trip to Gelert Shop Saturday evening plip plop whoooosh
All through Saturday night Pothead & Nem up and down in between tents nailing them back into the ground cos of Huricane Blodwen with her 50mph wind & rain lowering to 29mph when Steve packed up. at 5.30am
Sunday morning mmmm survey the damage , too many tents to fit in the rubbish skips. Hope Micks Gazebo is salvagable. Then later Dave etc found time to have a play in 17 to 30 Knot winds.

New kites tried out over the weekend = Blizzard 4 ; Vango 3 ; Storm Force 10 ; not sure what Si was flying but it ended in 6.

Good to see so many Flyers from all over the UK and the comradary helping others break camp says it all.
Cheers everyone,and pleased to make your aquaintance those I'd not met before.
Nem

[mick knox]

Bloody hell the wind was strong lastnight, I'm so tired now if it was'nt the hammering of pegs or the wind thrashing everything in sight keeping me up all night, or was the thought of all the gays right by my tent.
I did'nt bother going in today as it was just crazy winds.
Nice to meet everyone, see you all next time minus the Gazebo wich sadly passed away through the night. :-)

[peteb303]

Sorry to hear about tha Gazebo may it rest in peace along with my tent which is resting in peices in a skip . Weather didn't bother me I had a nice little blast on Saturday and had a good laugh too. Wicked weekend, nice one dudes when's the next trip?

[Maverick440]

Looks like I made the right desision for once by leaving Saterday afternoon.......

[Lian]

WE SURVIVED!!!

Well never mind extreme sports, we just invented a new one called 'Extreme Camping' and no i'm not talking about our neighbours Think we may all have been praying to the wind Gods a little too well!

Thanks Bernie for suggesting that my tent may be salvagable, otherwise mine too would've been joining Pete's tent and Mick's Gazebo in the skip!

Really good to see everyone and to meet some new people. Was a good turn out, def have to do it again sometime. There is always KiteJam to look forward too aswell

Got to say thanks to Roger for all your advise and for keeping me grounded yesterday, did my first jump with my board whoo hoo.

Thanks to Natty for the brilliant cup of tea this morning, bless ya, I would make Phil make his own next time though lol

See you all soon

Lee

[pothead]

that was one hell off a night cory and tasha slept all night wish i could of . got some pics of the damage will try and post some up here on tuesday . but we still got out on the beach saturday and had a good blast . was nice to put some faces to names .nem thanks for the help this morning kids now all in bed and i wont be far behind them look forward to doing it again but with a little less wind at night hopefullly see you all at the next one but bring plenty of tent pegs

[F/O Kite]

Thought of you poor B's on Saturday night as my caravan was ""rockin"" in that storm force wind on an expossed campsite in Llanaber.

Sorry I didn't make the BBQ Simon!!

Hope there wasn't too much damage

Good day Saturday

F/O Kite

[Spiritflier]

I had a car full of girls who didn't want to come home...

The BBQ went really well and although I didn't manage to set fire to Mick's gazebo and destroy it, the wind did it anyway.

@ Lian... Natty says to say you're welcome for the cuppa. Phil only got one 'cos he smiled nicely and Natty's a sucker for a happy face!

What a weekend... Can't wait for the next one!

Right, time for bed... Warrington beckons in the morning for my new job. I hope I manage to wake up!

See you all soon,
Si

[savagebob78]

pity i misssd it managed to fly my venom 2 16m today yay