What to write on your board
Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 10:03 pm
Your Name
Your Phone Number
And "Return For Reward"
Your board won't look as cool, but it will find you after you loose it. It's not always easy to fetch a board after you loose it upwind:
If you're a newbie like me it's hard to body drag up wind and watch the board at the same time.
If it's choppy the waves can make it impossible to keep track of the board as you drag.
If the wind is too light or too heavy for your kite it can become impossible to make upwind progress.
The current can play tricks on you taking the board in one direction while the wind is taking you in another.
Finally the industry has yet to learn what the ski industry learned when people went leashless, which is that white red, yellow and other colors not common in water are the best colors for the bottom of a board. You'll note that there aren't too many skis that come in white anymore.
Your Phone Number
And "Return For Reward"
Your board won't look as cool, but it will find you after you loose it. It's not always easy to fetch a board after you loose it upwind:
If you're a newbie like me it's hard to body drag up wind and watch the board at the same time.
If it's choppy the waves can make it impossible to keep track of the board as you drag.
If the wind is too light or too heavy for your kite it can become impossible to make upwind progress.
The current can play tricks on you taking the board in one direction while the wind is taking you in another.
Finally the industry has yet to learn what the ski industry learned when people went leashless, which is that white red, yellow and other colors not common in water are the best colors for the bottom of a board. You'll note that there aren't too many skis that come in white anymore.