In a message dated 3/16/2005 5:10:20 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
kiteguy@... writes:


I found some intereting information from the site listed below on
line extensions. In summary it gives guidelines for line lengths to
increase/decrease kite size.

A general rule is 3 meters of kite line = 1 meter of kite.

So...

10 meter kite 25 meter lines = 9 meter kite
10 meter kite 28 meter lines = 10 meter kite
10 meter kite 31 meter lines = 11 meter kite

Does this sound plausible? So could a set of 40 meter lines really
make a 10 meter kite pull like a 14 meter kite?



I think line extentions work very well , I have been out in very light
conditions on my Bomba 13 with 40 meter lines, having a quick turning kite
helps
counter some of the lazyness in going to longer lines , I tried the G-18 on 40
meter lines and found it was very slow to respond.
in the case of the Bomba I would say 3 meters of line is probably very
close to one meter of kite.
Denise

http://hometown.aol.com/denisesewa/index.html


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