Octopile at Berkeley.

[Mike North]

John,

I don’t know what happened to your post about the Octopile at Berkeley, but you had asked if anyone knew if that was a record.

At Berkeley Dave Gomberg, Said he had never seen that many octopi together before. When Peter Lynn was in Sacramento he was amazed with the pictures of the Octopile, he also had never so many octopi together before.

As well traveled as Dave and Peter are, on their authority I would say yes.

The Octoplie is a trademark for the Berkeley Kite Wranglers. We fly at the Berkeley marina most weekends and typically fly 4 large octopi and some smaller ones together, right at the edge of the bay. We split the bridles so they don’t move around much, so we can fly them nice and close.

We also like to pack in other large kites at Berkeley on a good day you may see the Octopile, 2 Large Manta Rays, 2 Large Bears, 2 Large Cats, a Trilobite, a Lobster and other small and medium Peter Lynn kites.

We look forward to another great show at the Berkeley Kite Festival this year. Last year we had as many as 19 Large Peter Lynn kites up at one time.

Dave Gomberg called it the largest gathering of giant Peter Lynn kites in North America.

So if you have a large Peter Lynn kite Berkeley is the place to be.

Hope to see you there.

Mike North.

[John Barresi]

Thanks for the update Mike... I was still curious about that.

For those of you who just picked up this topic, you can see the 2003 Berkeley report and many great photos in issue 31 of Kitelife:

http://www.kitelife.com/archives/issue31/b...ley03/index.htm

[John Barresi]

Any word on how many Octopus they managed to get up in Wildwood?

I know they were trying to break the record... Just curious.

[ant man]

i rember that year it was 6 and the winds were sloppy but they stayed up all day

[John Barresi]

FYI, they had 10 big Octopi up at Berkeley this year... And 3 little ones.

[Backspin23]

ya that was freakin HOT!!!

[ant man]

this year in wildwood they only did 2 because their was a big turnout of kites larger then usual im trying to contact gomberg to see if they will do it next year

[Jim Foster]

Here is a photo of all 10

Jim

[SKITCH]

According to the latest update on the Gomberg site.....they put 19 in the air at the festival in France.........I'm sure there must be some pics somewhere.

P