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Your most likely issue is swirling breezes where you fly.. From the house, the trees or even the mountains. Single line kites are pretty much designed to be stable and float in the sky with very little input required.. Dual line kites need to be more persistent control but are still susceptible to the wind direction(s) and swirl. More lines will not solve your issue and/or give you the desired effect. There are a few kites that go from single to dual line but not typically while in the air. For your stated objective, an quality single line sled with longer line to get you above the swirl might work. But something like the HQ Convertible kite might fit your bill and allow you to go back and forth between formats as you see fit. Not sure as to its availability though.

I’m not aware of any kite shops in this area. Although that is a great idea. I didn’t mean to be so vague. I live in North Carolina and for the most part, surrounded by mountains. (Not sure if that makes a difference in the type of winds we get) I would say that the majority of days here at home, there is not enough wind to fly a kite, but sometimes it can get quite windy. (I know still vague, but I don’t know how else to describe it) I was thinking about the Prism 140 Parafoill, but I’m not sure if that would be a good fit. I’m not sure if I want a kite that I would have to be constantly “driving”. Maybe a kite that I would be able to still maneuver around just a little bit in the air, while stable enough that I could just hold the strings in one position and it be on “auto-pilot” (if the wind isn’t shifting too much of course)

Alright folks, here we go, after ensuring there were no old screen caps on my desktop... One brand new Djinn XT is going home with a much earlier number this time! Huge congrats to subscriber #554 and longtime supporter, @Michael_Boswell! Thank you very much Michael (greetings to the EOL family), and thanks to all who continue to help us keep this resource running. 🙏 Stay tuned for a new prize as soon as possible!

Thank you Edmond Dragut for the post and thank you for coming to see the collection and sharing your knowledge and experience with us! I will be posting pictures soon. If there is anything specifically that someone wants to see, please msg me.

ok boys and girls some good and some so and so news. Without not to much background of the flyer and without to try in any way to offend the memory of a friend seeing the collection I felt one of two. Or the flyer was a kite hoarder who buy new and old school kites ore what was shown to me are(I incline to believe more this theory) the kites what was not by the flyer taste or not connected to then. Why I say this? All the kites old school and new are on excellent condition, most of them still have the tags and some to non showed to be flied. Prism, HQ, New Tech kites and old school without names. Taking them of from the sleeves I had the sensation to be the first time when they see the light, except some sand grains in some of them they seams just opened and putted back in. All kites have sleeves, some originals some not lets start with what I remember to identify for sure: a Rev II ripstop and maylar but without any logo (I assume an early production or prototype) excellent condition with a strange sleeve two 6 fits flexfoil with some sail color fading just because of passing time (characteristic to this kite), 1.2 synapse, 2.4 tensor, 3.0 Beamer(handles, lines and stake). All foils are crisp like they just left the sewing table and that characteristic smelt of new. a Silver Fox, 3 or 4 Adrenaline, Flashlight, Quantum. After the fact I realize Quantum may be one of the special editions(worth checking). yin and yang Wolfgang Siebert design there are another 3-4 brand name kites what I will not mention because need to be checked for real value and for sure some more what I forget the names At all this add another 30+ no name old school kites with wing spams from 45 to 91 probably hard to non chances to be identified, a stack of 10 old school nexus dimensions but no name. Line sets ? I do not count them but are 40+ for sure, some LPG, some old braided dyneema and 2 or 3 Kevlar, from 80 to 150 Lbs on 80 to 100 fits all with winders and straps, 2 quad line handles 13 and 15 inches I will end this with an Prism roll on bag on good condition and a duffel kite bag probably 6 fits long. If the owner at least to ones enumerated here, will take the time to post them I am sure they will find a new home instantly

Occasionally someone comes into a collection and wants to sell the unknown kites here, such as after a collector dies. Usually the first thing is to identify what all of them are and figure out their value. It requires clear pictures of each kite, with closeups of wear and tear and damage, along with knowing all the pieces are present, if any spare parts and the bags are included, etc. If you know them more exactly, you can come up with a list like this person did here and here, listing 39 "items" for 51 total kites being sold, then take pictures of details as needed. If you don't know those details coming up with an estimated value will be difficult.