John Barresi

What are of the country are you from Scott? There might be some stuff locally that your kids would enjoy a great deal.

The only winder/spool plan I've come across at Kitelife is this one: http://www.kitelife.com/archives/issue36/quadwinder36/ Not sure if it's adaptable to your needs... I'm sure there are other plans out there though, another good place to ask might be here: http://www.kitebuilder.com/forums/index.php

You might try reducing the file size a little bit... Not sure if that's the issue, but it's worth a try. Cleary, the upload itself is canceling before completion. Also try uploading with another type of image (gif, png). *photo credit on this one goes to Eric Johnson*

LOL Doug... Same here, only the top 8% or so of the photo comes up.

Can I be chief judge?

No, but you could always get one of these... http://www.cafepress.com/kitelife.10879110

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Hear hear, welcome Win! (finally)

Absolutely amazing... Between Summer Heat and WSIKF, I must have flown 5-6 hours each of the last 10 days... AWESOME wind... Sun on two days... And yes, I have photos of not only the Long Beach arch before and after, but also of the flying Pepsi Arch that fliers erected on Thursday. It's been a crazy couple of weeks, lots to do... But I will try to get those photos up asap. *sigh* How long until the next event?

It's a kite event... Need we say more? Come as you are, assuming you have good personal hygeine... Bring kites, and be prepared to meet a whole bunch of amazing kite makers and fliers. Everyone is friendly, and quick to share their latest tips on this or that. As for kites on a plane... I travel with a "SKB Standard Golf Case", hard shell with wheels on one end. I just check 'em in and if they give me any grief about the size or weight, I say it's sporting equipment... That usually satisfies them. In lieu of a hard case (which I only got recently), a good roll up bag should be fine as long as there are a lot of rods in there... If you have 10 kites all rolled up (maybe even with an added spine of sorts) the whole package is quite strong. While I've heard from a lot of kiters about the occasional rod being broken by handlers, I haven't had anything more than small tear in the bag itself.

Hoorah! Glad to hear it Todd, see you then. Wind has been 3-6 mph almost all day both yesterday and today... A little mist at times, but quite warm if you're flying! Been flying my new 3PT (Light) Sea Devil like crazy, especially working on a double roll up into multilazies... Got my first complete Comet rotation today, not sure how I did it... Gonna have fun finding out.

Monkey and I are already in Ocean Shores for the Summer Heat competition, then it's off to WISKF on Sunday night for a whole week of kiting fun.

Viola... http://ozonesnowkites.com/contact_us.htm

I've flown on Cocoa Beach before... Wind usually isn't bad, but the beaches are so darned narrow. Good thing you can wade out so far.

$70... Geez, I really need to throw some of my old kite junk on there.

Agreed. LOL Doug.

Super Blast and 50' x 200# lines... Then I'd fashion a board and floats out of the nearest coconut tree.

I'll be there for the whole week, coming straight down from Summer Heat in Ocean Shores... Anyone else going?

Not bad, eh?

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Kites on the brain?

*chortle* ..... *snort*

Yo, I'm in for 12 events at Summer Heat.