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| OSOW/ Children in Need; 11 Oct 09 | |
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| Topic Started: 12 Oct 2009 - 06:41 (149 Views) | |
| DaveP | 12 Oct 2009 - 06:41 Post #1 |
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A great day with a good turn out and a great result.... 572 Kites 24 Flyers + £147 for Children in Need[ The 24 flyers includes 2 people flying powerkites to the North of us, a couple of families who came to fly near us and a couple of kite flyers sorry didn't get their name oh and Sue's just reminded me 3 bears so thats 24+3  From where we were at Children in Need HQ the beach looked great all day with a wonderful array of kites / laundry. The kites were our best advert bringing people down from the campsite at North Denes and from as far south as the pier. One lady speaking to Sue was over the moon to have seen the display, her friend saw us in the morning and when Sue told her about the 3 o clock count rang the lady up and then went to pick her up and bring her to see the display We had a great day talking to people and explaining why there was no advertising for the event and the locals all said they were not surprised by the council's lack of interest for anything not 'between the piers' We will know for next time....... But other than that we had loads and loads of compliments about the display.. You should all be pleased with yourselves Sue & Dave Edited by DaveP, 14 Oct 2009 - 15:05.
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| DaveBlom | 12 Oct 2009 - 09:32 Post #2 |
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I agree a good turn out for the day, bit chilly when we first arrived but the sun got out and the wind was strong and gusty but mostly we coped. Sand was very soft so staking down was a bit of a pain. We had very few tangles this year, which is good news. All flyers were keeping their kites well away from each other despite the wind having other ideas we didn't lose anything into the sea. Good job we weren't doing teddy drops Have added photos on flikr and you can view them here :- Dave's Flikr Have got a few more photos but they're mostly 2nd shots of the same as here, am limited to how many uploads per month I can do. Cheers Dave |
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| RogerT | 13 Oct 2009 - 05:59 Post #3 |
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And this from Kev. OSOW 11Th Oct 2009 (2 hours for 3 minutes flying). Late as usual, got stuck unloading my car Sunday at my store on the airport industrial estate in Norwich. Arrived at Great Yarmouth at 13.50. Everyone else was already up & flying. Hmmm.... wind from the West, who once told me to beware of that a "wicked West wrecking wind." Roger spotted me and found me spot down the side on the roped off part down in front of Munchies. I wanted to fly my Micron 12 stack and Roger & Chris kindly helped me to setup. I had a practice run and after 2 minutes I was down again. While there was plenty of wind above the roof tops where the single liners were. However, at my spot I was struggling to get off the ground. Not to worry too much I thought the wind was predicted to get a little stronger towards 3.00 PM I seemed to remember from the forecast as I set my mobile phone's alarm for 2.59 to make sure I was in the air at the 3.00 PM count. Plan B was called for; being a dual line flyer I only have 2 single line kites, neither in my bag and both were at home! Hmmm... I thought about my recently acquired Prism Nexus 5 Stack, bigger sails should have proved fine getting off the ground. Roger helped me try these out on Thursday afternoon and they flew fine. I unpacked them, stacked my lines out but disaster! A gust of wind and my stake pulled out and everything landed in a wretched horribly twist. William to the rescue (thanks William) but after several minutes we couldn't just the tangles out. What was that noise! My phone alarm was bleeping, blast 2.59 and nothing to fly! I ran up to my Micron's still staked out and with the help of a God sent gust of wind that appeared just at that precise second I launched them and they went straight to 90 foot (my line length). I walked slowly backwards towards Munchies to keep them up and ran out of beach at 3.03. Phew made it but just to add insult to injury my 5 stack then disappeared down the beach with another gust. Dave Franks helped me to recover them, now time to pack up. I spent the next 40 minutes untangling & packing up. So here's the low down; I spent nearly 2 hours unpacking, untangling & repacking and just 3 minutes flying! Was it worth it? I've just logged onto Suffolk kite flyers forum they scored 312. With my 12 kites + 12 add-on tails that equals 24. We scored I think 379, I just hope that went some way to helping us soundly beating their score! Just remind me when there is a Westerly wind again to keep my kites in their bags. Kevin. |
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| RogerT | 13 Oct 2009 - 07:10 Post #4 |
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O.S.O.W. On the BEACH. There, that’s the problem. On the BEACH. Others have told you their experiences of Sunday; how many kites and items of line-laundry were flown, how much money was collected, how appreciative the public were. I just want to add how I nearly lost a kite, a flag & four bits of laundry. The beach was very dry, no real rain for weeks and we were well above the tide-line. Anchors were going to be a problem. I set up four kites, well spaced out. One anchor was the large angle-iron stake with two large dog-stakes as back-up. Another was the large sand-bag with two dog-stakes. These were on the flat areas of sand. The other two positions were on low dunes, they each consisted of three dog-stakes screwed into the bases of large tussocks of marram grass, one further backed-up be a shopping bag filled with sand. At 14.40ish my black Rok, Paranoia, pulled three large dog-stakes out of the ground and headed off towards the sea, the line reel and dog-stakes bumping along behind. Luckily no-one else was near so no-one was hurt. The kite crossed a line to one of Dave B’s kites, the lines rubbed together and mine, being exceedingly strong but of low melting-point, parted. The Kite and pirate flag with several meters of line went up Dave’s line until the end of my line finally tangled in the bridle of Dave’s kite and held. We very carefully pulled down Dave’s kite, grabbed my line and pulled in my kite and flag. Dave’s kite appeared undamaged although one leg of the bridle had parted. After untangling everything Dave put a different kite on his line and relaunched. I distributed the line laundry among my other kites and grabbed a small box-delta to fly so by 15.00 we were just one item less for the count. On Monday I went to Yarmouth Market and bought two meters of material to make another large sand-bag. Don’t trust dog-stakes in dry sand. |
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