sat May 3, or sun 4

i'll be up in Faja town on the thurs/fri and keen for something cool kiting on the weekend.

low tide of on the west coast is 1.42pm on the saturday.

MOOSE MOOSE MOOSE
I'm in sat or sun

When is the '08 Blue balls buggy bash this year. I vote for a northern Kaipara heads mission this year!!

i'm keen to look at mooseland. however i don't have a 4wd. so some one would have to drive me up there

I have a 3 door rav4, I,ve had 4 buggys and 2 people + tents and kites and gear so I think we will get you in.
PS , I know of 2 4x4 trucks I can get for a weekend at a small charge.

well i'm keen if the weathers good. i'll be staying with paul that you go buggying with on accasions. we'll Tee something up on the friday if its a goer.

ok,

weather is looking good for sat, light sw at lunch time.
sun sw rain.( metvuv)

Sat looks good 15-20 kts low at 2pm so upo the beach at 1130 ish

sunday looks like a wash out, but the moose has its own loacal weather

and certain keen folk have had a blast in the rain before.

how do we get the extra 4x4's ?

I can ask kane at work for his 4x4.

sweeet. i',m super keen haven't been to the moosleand before. i presume we drive back late afternoon sat or is it an overnight stay in a tent thing?. ps i don'r own a tent. prefer a drive back the same day option

i'm realy keen to do some looooong runs up and down the beach.

depending on the wind direction i'd like to take off down the beach 1/2 or so before pack up and see how far i get before the 4wd's catch me.

old durling needs his bro's 4x4 , you would take aprox 1hour 15 mins to run the full distance at full pace on the board on the return trip, there is lots of room up there

i'm pretty keen to do some speed runs.want to break 50kph on the board.

hehe i need to break 40 first. that will be easy if the moose is as wide and glorious as stated and the wind is more than 12 knots.

if you want speed alone you can try out the Yaks in whatever size suits the day
i got 57kmph on the 6.0m in 10 knots and 56 on the 3.4 in 15 knots odd so far its just in your head you need to fix, 50 kmph is really fast on a board, unless your butch or maybe some of the southern boys who are well into it.

The mad thing is the little best trainer still holds my best ever 60.3 kmph in some huge gale, go figure

yea guys, me an roffey are going to south head and perrin said he was keen. will be roffeys first time to the lond of moose, in his new libre v-max to. should be a blast.

Sweeeeeeet. wind is look good to s/w which might be ideal for a long run back down the beach.... but what the hey.

is there enough 4wd seats to fit all the dudes.

we can just get towed up to the south head if its taking to long, buggy till low tide again an drive home with another tow back....sorted mate....!

i just gotta say that was a hell out trip to the mooseland on saturday.
i'm still buzzing. :twisted:
BUZZZZ..............

a lot pd's for me
upped my top speed
furtherest straight run
longest total distance
londest amount of time on the board.

my problem is how do i better that session?

two of those session back to back?

highlight of that trip was a lesson learned....dont put a 6.6 blade 3 up in 20knots!! fun, but a bit leathal..not even a loaded libra bigfoot could hold that thing down..its just a good job that sanddune was in the way or i would have ended up in woodhill!!
awsome outing, cheers lads.

all the same session zennon.

i missed that dragging up the dune. paul told me all about it.

was that when the rain squal came through?

i had to pull the safety on the frenzy as i was getting lifted and sledging towards the dunes.

ps what about a safety attached to one of the power lines that sheets the kite out like the venom safety???? could be worth a look. maybe save the odd dragging.

yea that was that squall.. the wind was dying so i stoped an waited for roffey to give him the 5m an i put up the blade....in all the time that took the wind had got up an as the apparent got hold i was stuck on a downwinder...i was reaching for the saftey as i hit the dune!!

BUZZING...that was a big O for awesome!
I also missed the squall. as I was getting my B4-4.9 out of a pine tree,
as a side strap to the holts block broke and just sat there watching my kite sail over the hill for the trees, :shock: :cry: good thing the tree down there are only 1m tall and 5m wide.
Awesome weekend guys.
I did 116km with a top speed of 63.8 k's.
I't's a long way back with low winds.

nuked it back, just with incoming tide 5 knots and cut up sand , did 1/2 of the uptrip and all of the back session , topped out a 60.2 kmph with 112km covered. What a day, i was on a PL XR2 on the way up with a borrowed rebbel 5.0m through the 20-25 squall but i made it JUST . On the way back it was my trusty 6.0m Yak hitting 57kmph for a short time and lowest speed was parking the kite dragging the buggy through the cut up 4x4 out let getting the kite over and carring on.The wind was almost in front at one point, a very hard nuke but i did it. Thank you to roffey and gannet esp for vehicle support the only thing stopping it being a perfect day was Perrin had to man his shop and was unable to join us.

hmmmm.

i'm jelious of all that dune buggy riding.

i need to make a dune capable mountainboard.

maybe mini quad tyres might be an option

www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=153057407

fits on 4 inch rims 10" high and 4" wide.....??? might be worth me checking out.

even the 3 540mm diameter wheels dig in a bit total weight of me and bug is 105 kgs. what you need is a buggy

hmm i have one going cheap flexifoil the only buggy to own refer trademe or pm

hey kiter.
how do you get to be a pro rider?
will sell my soul for the blade and a lesson on buggy flight !

hi' pro ride hmmm not quite that my friend but if you require a buggy lesson or tips joe is the man he is awsome in a buggy

And i live in chch...dammit.

Next time your down ill give you some tips...or next time im up. Hopefully not in the too far distnat future but probably not anytime soon.

the moose meet...coming soon.

I see you just picked up a Blade III 4.9 Northernal. You better take care of it. I loved that kite...

i know weve never met but dont worry mate, its still in the family....were up here with perrin and a few other hardend buggiers.
must admit tho, the mighty zenon's blade....thats got to have a few stories in it!!
is it yours or kiters, im a bit confused...either way....iv got a bit of southern kite magic now and im gona love it.
will have to see how it does against my other magic kite, perrins old 3.5 N-gen...that thing got soul man.....iv overtaken jojos and yacks with that kite....full re-bridal and some of perrins blood!!!! goes like holy hell.
the blades got some more work to do yet!!

It was mine... i sold it to kiter he sold it onto you. Yeah that thing has a few storys in it.

It will be an awesome kite. Just keep it moving or it may get a bit of tip tuck...thats would be my olnly tip for now.

O and i want to see photos.....