Hi
Coming home to Tassie in late Dec until late Jan with kites in hand from Copenhagen. Too damn cold here!
Where are the regular spots to ride? Is there a website with a spot guide for wind direction and so on? Will be in hobart but we are thinking the North West corner looks good for some flat water spots?
My girlfriend rides as well so there will be plenty of time allocated to Kiteboarding if anyone is keen to point us in the right direction we would appreciate it:-)
Cheers
Lots of good spots so long as the wind blows!
There are lots of earlier posts you can have a look at for locations to kite.
There's a bit of a crew around Hobart to kite with as well.
Cheers, will go back through the forums.
any favorites for flat water/freestyle spots?
Mortimer Bay / Sandpits, Cremorne Lagoon, Marion Lagoon can all work as flatwater spots with the right wind direction.
In NW winds, you can launch at 5miles and go upwind next to the Causeway on pretty flat water
nice work vt
hope the westerly isn't too strong this w/e at Carlton, with a 0.4m low tide at 1700 and swell
hey lk to get you keen check out these pics beachsafe.org.au/beach/tas/sorell/carlton/carlton-beach and this forecast...
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Saturday 1 December
Min 15
Max 23
Mostly sunny
Winds
Northwesterly 10 to 20 knots, reaching 30 knots at times, tending west to northwesterly up to 35 knots around dawn then becoming westerly 25 to 30 knots during the afternoon.
Seas
Up to 4 metres.
Swell
West to southwesterly up to 5 metres.
Sunday 2 December
Winds
West to southwesterly 20 to 30 knots becoming westerly 20 to 25 knots during the evening.
Seas
2 to 3 metres.
Swell
West to southwesterly 3 to 4 metres.
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ps that site has good pics here is cremorne, search by tas:
beachsafe.org.au/beach/tas0405
Yeah it was pretty good. Very sore now though. Took some very hard and awkward crashes. To old for this s":t. Need to gay up and get to the gym and do some weights in preparation to give the chassis a chance. Shame it'll never happen.
Hey
Thanks for all the pointers:-)
Will post a forum a little closer to the time to see if anyone is up for a kite:-)
Looking forward to riding some warmer water! Water is down to 4-5 air temp 4-5... add some wind chill factor into it drysuit is great but the windchill on the gloves hurts!
Cheers
