Hi all. I have booked my first trip up to Raro and Aitutaki for mid May for two weeks and hoping to get some good kiting in. After booking, I saw someone comment somewhere that the trade winds 'might not arrive until later in the year'...? I don't know alot about the habits of the trade winds, can anyone give me some advice here? Am I likely to be able to kite up there in the Cooks mid to late May? Cheers.

G'day

We've got some info on our site about wind....go to www.kiteboardaitutaki.com have a cruise around and then let me know if we can assist you with further info.

May is supposedly not so 'reliable', here's the 2008 wind data from the airport sensors


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and here's May to September graph

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So you can see a bit of swinging around to N & other directions instead of the more expectable SE.

Last year we had a bit of everything, SW, S (cold!), and then SE......

The sand bars in the lagoon allow for sailing in any direction.
Let me know if we can give you further info; we're just booking our trips for June/July/Aug/Sept....details soon!

BrianM

I can't get the windrose data to upload.....pm me and I'll flick you the graphs direct

BrianM

Hi Brian, marr@ocg.co.nz for those graphs. Cheers Hamish

Done, got 'em ok???