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Old 04-18-2007, 09:39 AM
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Did you mean disconnect or depower?
Worst case... imagine what would have happened if you got tangled in a crab trap and pulled under water? How quickly could you have released the kite?
Make sure you can ditch the kite in about 2 seconds with your eyes closed (by feel only).
Oh I meant disconnect. Kind of hard to kill a kite you can't detach from....and I couldn't even reach the depower strap anyways. At that point it was too far out of reach. I had it in my mind that if I started to get too close to shore while the kite was getting squirly, I was going to unzip my harness and let the whole mess go. Would only have taken a few seconds, even if the kite was powered.
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