Faceplant wrote:Heading to Monck park on Thursday with a couple of the crew from Kamloops. Bringing boat. Hope to score a session or two. Plus fish, and wake board. Might be hard to launch from monck. Boat might come in useful for launch or rescue.
First time riding Nicola we ended up at Monck park. With the wind shadow from the trees up around the corner killing the inshore wind, launching is tricky. This time in particular with the wind direction, a normal assisted launch was impossible.
No big deal though, set the kite on the water for a drift launch. Let it pull me downwind and in towards the center of the lake until there was enough wind to water-launch the kite, then BANG! shredding across at mach-1. Great wind, and nice even water chop, easy riding.
Coming back in...approach from upwind with lots of speed and have someone ready to catch!!