Christmas Stock Clearance Sale We have decided we are well over due for a big clearance sale. We have massively reduced prices on stocked items, from single line kites to buggies and power kites. Scroll through our list till you find something you like, but be in quick as this special is only for these [...]
Dear faithful existing customers and prospective new Kite owners. We have something important to say, we have thought long and hard about this. Something that has been difficult to work through, for many reasons, one of which is not devaluing the faithfulness of our long term friends and customers, who have been buying and flying [...]
KITE FESTIVALS ARE GETTING BETTER AGAIN The first international kite festivals I went to- in the 1970’s (whoops showing my age a bit here)- were exciting events. We flew our kites with real passion back then- or maybe it just seems that we did because it was all so new for me. But I don’t [...]
RE-INVENTING THE WHEEL The ‘something more dramatic’ that was to have been my subject this month is delayed on account of unsuitable weather- that is, it’s been kite flying as usual. But my ear to the ground tells me that no-one is breathing down our necks or looking over our shoulders on this one (would [...]
Pilots and Lifters (skirt lifters that is) (A passing wind to get your attention, that last bit). The first America’s cup in 1851 was an unequal contest between the schooner ‘America’ and a fleet of the best of British- and to tilt the playing field even further, ‘America’ had to sail across the Atlantic to [...]