30 mile ride from East Beach to St Luis pass this Sunday.
Details will be posted as we get closer to Sunday and the forecast gets more accurate.
Meet at East beach at 1pm for skippers meeting about the ride. The ride will start about 1:20-1:30pm (all times are tenative). Final times/plans will be announced at the swap meet Saturday at the new shop (details below), they will also be posted on www.houstonkiteboarding.com as well as the twitter account. We will be dropping the XLKITES truck at St Luis Pass and taking my black van back to East beach leaving St Luis at 12:30 SHARP! Everyone needs to provide there own transportation or get with other riders to get to East beach. If you’re at St Luis with no ride you can hitch with the XLKITES crew at 12:30 I have room for 10-15 brave souls. This down-wind ride will be about 30mi and with the Easterly wind direction fast riders will make it in about 2 hours slow guys may take as long as 6+ so it is not for beginners. The Keg of beer at the end of the ride will be for everyone (provided you’re of age). There will be a number of us camping at St Luis after the ride…beer, tents, fire etc. Please join us if you have a flexible work schedule for Monday or can go in late.
Highlights:
-30mi down-wind ride for confident wave riding kiteboarders
-keg of beer and camping for every level of rider or freinds and family
-No watercraft will be in chase so self rescue compatancy is a must
-Down wind riding skills should be a prerequisite as it could be a seriously long ride if riders can’t ride down wind easily.
-Skipper’s Meeting 1pm East Beach, ride start 1:30pm or so.
ALL RIDERS ARE PARTICIPATING AT THIER OWN RISK, THIS IS NOT A SPONSORED EVENT…SEE YOU THERE!
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Kiteboarding Swap meet
Where: New Shop 1207 Marina Bay Drive, Kemah TX 77565 (see map)
When: Sat November 7th (10am-6pm)
Details:
Rules are the same as every year. Bring used gear in to sell, have it to the shop by Friday Nov 6th. Fill out the information below to put on a tag on your stuff. No commission will be claimed by the shop for gear sold and money reinvested in new equipment. A 20% consignment fee will be assessed for sellers wishing to get cash or check for their sold gear. We’ll start all equipment at full marked price (the price you put on your tag), and at 1pm the price will drop 20% to ensure we get as much equipment sold as possible. Some items people are looking for:
-Quad and tri surf boards
-Regular boards that are cheap
-Fins, Pads, Straps, etc
-Kites (Larger bow kites for light wind, or smaller bow kites for this time of year).
No matter what you have, bring it by the shop and we’ll see if we can get it sold next weekend! here is the information that you should have to put on your kite:
Item Name
Item Description
Item starting price
Owners name
Owners phone
Owners email
All sales will go to the customer’s XLKITES account, emails will be sent out if you’re not around on how you did with the equipment sale and you can decide what to do with the proceeds.
New Shop Location is in the old North Canvas Shop:
November 4, 2009 at 11:06 am
I have been wanting to do this for a long time you can count me in. Im going to try and get out of work monday so I can stay on the beach sunday night.
November 5, 2009 at 9:12 am
how’s it looking for sunday? do we just go all the way down east beach road?
November 6, 2009 at 7:00 pm
ill see you at slp at 1009am, i have some meeting at 7am at work till 930am so it will be a little after 10 when i get there…