You know- "Uncle Murphy's" breathing down your neck with his playbook in his hand making sure whatever can go wrong, does go wrong, but you soldier on because well what else are ya gonna do, and lo and behold, life goes on (and on-grins) and maybe at the end something good comes out of it...
so I'm down there solo this time cuz, well, the gal pal was just plain tuckered out from following me around trying to keep up, and the payoff isn't as big for her as she doesn't kite that well (yet!).
anyways it was one of those late start days at Ft Stevens scoping out the wind at shipwrecks on a Sunday. The previous day I had noticed a small tear along my the inside of the seam of my center strut and I didn't want it to get worse or get sand in it so I put some sticky fabric on it the day before.
I made arrangements with a friend from home to leave my vehicle at Shipwrecks and carpool from to Lot C with my gear only to realize that the fabric had come off. I wanted to put something on it before the kite got wet so it would stick ( hmm this is turning into a longer story than I though-laffs) my friend wanted to head back out right away cuz he was driving back up to BC that afternoon.
So I tell him I'll catch up with him as soon as i could get back and head back downwind (sigh) to my car cuz I got a repair kit . I headed back toSshipwrecks downwind via car and in my haste to fix the first spot accidentally cut a worse spot in my kite fabric-yeesh-it never pays to be in a hurry, eh, kids?! BUT I don't notice it until i get back up to the lot the second time so once again I head back downwind ( not on a kite-arg!) to repair said mishap.
Anyways I'm trolling around waiting to hookup with some other kiters to get a ride back up wind to where I've already been twice! and I meet this guy who offers to give me a ride as soon as his friends show up. I had been reading Chooch from NWkite forum talking about these Wainman Rabbits kites online, he had a couple and was travelling around to demo them at various location over the weekend. Anywasy i introduce my self and waddya know- same guy!
He offers to give me a ride up and as my kites sorta hooped I could use one the Wainman Smoke 9m.
Awesome! We hang out and I meet his posse, a large crew from Portland and the Gorge, sorry guys no names. Great bunch of guys though. (uh... Stringer, Blair,... a couple more...urh..urh..nope brain hurts).
Anyways we all hookup for an awesome! downwinder , chasing each other through the waves & I get to try out thes awesome kites and Chooch sets me up with the contact info for Chris at Kite Naked who later generously hooks me up with these awesome! kites. We get two more awesome! ( do I use that word too much?) downwinders in before packing it in.
and that's how that bad day went from bad to good- just gotta keep keeping on.
Is that awesome! or what? (lmao)
Wait for it... ahhhhh....there it is... I love my life!
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