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Hello Dan. Just to relate, mine is not for sale, the Hawaiian Team was the only kite i bought when i first started out building and flying sport kites in the early 90's and i still have it. The rest i built myself and back then i sewed up a waist harness for it and thought flying it from the hips was a trick until i got back into sport kiting around 2004 after a long leave of absence and saw what Ray Bethel and some others do. Before i bought my Hawaiian i built a version of it i drew from looking at pictures and last year i posted a pic (on another website) of me flying it back then with my 3 year old son watching in the snow. Like your inclination, when i first got back into sport kite flying in 2004, my Hawaiian was one of the first things i took out to fly. I hope you get one if you haven't already but i'd also suggest that there are a lot of fine sport kites out there that have since evolved with a lot of new tech that's come along since then so at least give some of them a try. I will even go so far to say if you like the pull and traction of the Hawaiian there are some great quad line foils out there that will give you a lot of fun also.

Looks like you're on your way to enjoying your new adventure in slack line flying but while you're at it, for future reference, i noticed you also fly a Beamer quad foil. After two years of flying sport kites and dual foils i ended up flying a Beamer quad foil also in about the same size range as yours. Also a Rev and fighters by now. So i would suggest, perhaps for later, don't forget to give a Rev or similar quad a try, they're a lot of fun too. Your Beamer quad experience may help.

Hi Theresa Well see, i've made enough post about 'boats' on that 'other' forum I thought i might come over here and give it a try... Hope you enjoyed the post. Hmmmm i wasn't in Ocean City though which is ok. See when Lynn Adams then national racquetball champion came here and met me during an exhibition tournament....she said 'haven't we met before?' I so wanted to say yes Lynn, of course, don't you remember that night, but nooooooooo, instead i had to say no but i wish. I fly/build sport kites, fighters and fly dual/quad foils and a rev exp. I also need to finsh a rev 2 i got that has the top cut off. But my situation is such that i'm not able to travel to events. That's why my friendship with John Barresi exists. He fulfillls all my dreams re that. Looks like you guys/gurls have a great event coming up your way soon, hope you enjoy Theresa and nice to meet you here...

Then you might have seen a situation like this: [Peter Chilvers as a 12 year old English boy on Hayling Island on the south coast of England, was the first person to produce a board with a sail. This board formed the basis for modern windsurfers. Chilvers has successfully won the patent for the windsurfer in the UK, Europe, Canada and America. Other worldwide patents are still being contested. The history of windsurfing, and its ultimate inventor are a source of much conjecture in the windsurfing community. The courts recognise Chilvers as the father of windsurfing after successful legal action in 1980,83,85. See Windsurfing International Inc. v Tabur Marine (GB) Ltd. 1985 RPC 59. This case set a very significant precedent in Patent law in terms of Inventive step and non-obviousness. Invention of windsurfing has also been attributed and to 3 other inventors. Newman Darby is often incorrectly credited as the first man to conceive the idea of connecting a hand-held sail rig fastened with a universal joint to a floating platform for recreational use, in the early sixties. He published his design in August 1965 Popular Science magazine. Darby had organized Darby Industries, Inc. in 1964 to build what they called sailboards. However, Darby's boards were inefficient and did not enjoy significant popularity [1]. Jim Drake, a Californian aeronautical engineer and his friend Hoyle Schweitzer with his wife Diane Schweitzer commercially developed the windsurfer and made it commercially successful. Drake had designed a surfboard-like board with a triangular sail and wishbone booms, connected to the board via a universal joint, and Schweizter popularized the new sport. The details of the original designs are available in Drake's whitepaper on windsurfing. Also, the history of invention is discussed in this interview with Jim Drake. Drake recognizes he re-invented what Chilvers and Darby have conceived earlier. Drake and Schweitzer patented the invention in 1968. Schweitzer incorporated Windsurfing International for promoting the sport and managing the patent, and bought the rights from Drake in 1973. Windsurfing caught on in Europe, and local companies started manufacturing windsurfing equipment. In 1983 Schweitzer sued a Swiss board manufacturer Mistral for infringing on his patent, however Mistral won the case by bringing up prior art by Darby. Schweitzer had to reapply for a patent under severely limited terms, and finally it expired in 1987. Windsurfing has experienced a boom in the 1980s. Windsurfing became an Olympic sport in 1984, however, windsurfing was in a sharp decline in mid-1990s, as the equipment became more specialized, requiring more expertise to sail. Now the sport is experiencing a modest revival, as new beginner-friendly designs have become more readily available.] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsurfing And i might have had to actually build that plywood windsurfer from the plans i saw in the early 90's rather than work my way to advanced windsurfing, fine composite shortboards, some custom-made, and gear for the next ten years that i mostly obtained from windsurf swap meets and trades with dealers...modern shortboards are a long ways from the original 'floating platform with a sail'... (and returning to kiting in 2004 where i was able to build many fine open source sport kites from plans available on the net....which i doubt would exist if royalty payments were involved, as may not many fine commercial/custom kites) And btw i came back to kiting in 2004 with a TOTL Team Hawaiian that i got in the early 90's...