Seeing the wind is quite light at the moment!
Has anyone had experience stacking kites
in theory 2 x 8 metre kites stacked should fly fast enough
while the 16 square metres should generate ample low end power to get you up and going in light winds.
Used to do it with c kites . Does generate lots of pull but hard to go upwind.Gave up in the end but haven't tried it with SLE 's . Perhaps this is one worth revisiting .Works with low ar deltas (in the old days low ar c kites had good pull but not enough depower )
^^^^^^^ Yeah what float said.
Stacking kites stopped around about the time big kites became the craze and you were a nobody unless you owned an 18m kite or bigger. Either way those monsters truck you downwind and do not relaunch... oh the swimming...
I have not seen it done for SLEs and I wonder if it works better / worse than for Cs / arcs.
We use to do it with Arcs around 2001 - 2002 and would place a 1120 over a 840 with 6m extensions and the back lines about 100mm longer. It was a great light wind tractor and made you use the apparent wind to great effect. You had to know how to edge to control board speed and avoid the down wind speed crash as the faster you went the more down wind you were pulled. Relaunch was in most cases very easy believe it or not as most of the time at least one kite was trying to fly off the water and lifting the other. Arcs are next to impossible to crash anyway.
I dont think today it would be too cool unless you were to do it unhooked with kite low on a directional with no fins in the surf wearing bindings.
love it sir rowdy.
As much as i dont want to start a verbal riot, I have seen Alex Sanz do it a few times and he seems to do it well. not sure where he is now but if you can get hold of him I'm sure he would be more then happy to tell you why his way is better and is going to make the sport so much more then it is now
A few guys at mambo experimented with this a few years back. I will dig up the photos when i get home. I think they used two small cabs.
Stickerman at Maroochydore set a world record for stacking foils a few years ago. Part of the requirement was to actually kite for a certain distance.
I'll get the details and post them here.
Lach aka Mr Float, in light wind hell Vanuatu 2004 (?)
48 Sq M of Peter Lynn venoms!! (19+16+13), the 13M was on the bottom of the stack total length of lines was around 40M!!!
Still only just got us going a little better than the 19M.
Stacking does not really work for light winds, but its still fun to do.