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Hey Everyone, I will be attending and competing in this Years Coupe Du Quebec, January 27th 28th 2007. I am looking forward to this event. I am a little nervous about the fact that i have all of Georgian Bay to kite without worries of running into another kite ... Here, i was told you start in a 2 foot by 2 foot square ...this is your space .. ..so one is kiting fairly close to the next kiter ..... Should be a fun learning experience ...

Hey Folks, This weekend of the Oct 28th weekend will mark the first offical recording in the new Music @ Large Homestead... Allot of energy went into the development of the building and we have a great space to record live music with a sound tight control room. Fisrt project is a good friend Jay Aymar... recording with Grahan Ketcheson on drums and Steve McDowell on bass ...

Hello Everybody, Mark Peer from Yellowknife just emailed and told me the lakes are starting to freeze, and his kite gang will be kiting very shortly up there ... Very cool ...We are all Jealous...

Speedkiter will be giving kite skiing instruction for Laurentian University this winter in their outdoor program with Jim Little. This is very exciting for us @ speedkiter.com.

Our kite friends to the South will be having their 5th Annual Lake Simcoe Wind Sports Festival on March 3rd and 4th ...Everyone should be there for a fun exciting time ...

Well its mid August and a great summer it has been ... I have met a wonderfull woman that makes my heart skip a beat everytime i am with her. She has inspired me beyond belief and has made me a happier person...not that i wasnt happy ...but i had a hole in my heart and she has filled it with love ... We have a well balanced relationship, both of us able to spend time in prusuit of attaining the goals we have both set out to accomplish individually and together ... .. She is the first thing i think about when i wake, and the last thing i think of when i fall asleep... and I dream of her neadless to say ... I cant wait to pull her around this winter in a pulk, kiting on the bay .... This Winter we will have the first Parry Sound/Dillon Kite Festival 2007 , It will have all the fun stuff one would expect from a kite festival and more ... We will have Kite races, speed and cousres ... Ski Doo towing to the big ice playground... Food ...lots of food .. Beer. wine .. entertainment and hopefully allot of happy kiters .... Details will be posted as we organise the event ...Peace to all and kite on ..... Chris' goal for 2007 is to attain a velocity of 120 KMper Hour ....small kite, big winds, lots of dry snow ... and niceley waxed skis should make this happen ... Hope we have better, more predictable snow and ice than last year ... Peace out ..

A bunch of us from Speedkiter will be @ the Green Festival on June 11th 2006 @ the Stockey Centre to promote kiting in the Parry Sound area. Stan and Lenka(WISSA's women's kiting silver medalist) will be there to show off some kites. We will have a great range of Concept Air kites, and perhaps a new secret prototype "the Smart Kite" will be on display for all interested. 19 James, Kindred and others will be performing some great music for you.. See you there ...

This past long weekend i decided to go sailing and end up anchored off the beautifull protected bays of Franklin island. Bear the dog and i took off on the Friday and my friend Graham is meeting us on the saturday with a tandem kayak ready to kite yak if the weather dictates. the weather was said to be quite crappy, but needed an adventure. The first night i was anchored off Gaspar Island with two anchors off the bow and tied to the shore on the stearn. I had made a little walk pattform so Bear the dog can come and go as he pleased all weekend and run loose. He had a great time. That evening it was a bumpy, windy, halyard clanking night with the winds changing dicrection coming right down the little channel ... with one foot white caps ..out in the big bay with binoculars you can see spray hitting halfway up the 60 foot light house ....so it was clipping out there. Just before dawn, the wind picked up some more and i decided to move the boat to a safer , better sleeping place ... so around to the next bay i went and ran aground on the sandbar with the keel ....twice .....it was dark ... next i went back midway to the last spot and found a nice, out of the wind place ..... tied up ...reset lines ....threw anchors .... sleeeppppp.... I woke up late that morning .... and walked around the ilsand with bear ... Graham shows up and is ready for Baffin Yakin by the looks of it .. He tells me that tonite Gale force winds are expected.... cool ...better tighten my lines and throw out another danforth anchor ... that evening the wind would hit the mast and tilt me over 10 degrees and chutter the boat ....only the surface erea of a 20-22 foot mast made the boat tilt ...to say it another way ... wow ....what power ...Graham was camping on shore in his Hotel Sierra tent ...weighted down with rocks ....slept well That night in the midst of all the wind and rolling and shuddering ...Just as i was ready to sleep .... Bear the dog decides he dont want all that grass he ate in his stomach anymore and tosses up right next to me on my bunk ...I can hear the throat trying to stay closed as i fumbled for my headlamp and then .....blahhhhhh....too late ... Bear did manage to hurl onto the top of a hatch , so clean up was easy ....and the next day i found out he managed to cristen my not so cheap Japaneese made Takamine guitar...didnt get the electronics thank goodness.. Not quite a kiting story , but about the power of wind .. We survived ....ate welll ...had great hikes ....didnt get to kite or sail due to the massive waves and too much air moving .... it was a relaxing time ... A few days latter i am out sailling with a couple of friends ..and look up at the wind indicator ...that should be at the top of the mast ...it is gone ...the Gale winds must have ripped it right off ... Wow ...wind = power ....

Well I better remember that Canada is a vast place with many vast nooks and cranny's to kite ...I received an email from a fellow kiter named Mark Peer up in the Northwest Territories ...and he correct my Blog stating that they still have a couple of months of kiting season left ... See Photo Gallery for photo of kite place ....very cool .... Mark and fellow kiters up there kite on the lakes that the ice roads go thru ... these ice roads are created evey year to connect the otherwise isolated communities ... Right on Markand kite gang ...We are very envious ...Peace and kite safe ..

Hello Folks .... Well the ice is done , snow kiting is done till next winter... sailing, rock climbing, Bouldering, Canoing, Kayaking, windsurfing, Kite surfing, fishing... Lots of stuff to do in the summertime... We will be kitesurfing or trying to get better at it on the south end of Franklin Island ..in the big sandy bay ...this summer ... and Lenka has offered to help us and give some of her knowledge away... thank you Lenka ... Peace and Kite on kiters .....see ya this summer or next winter ...

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