I was busy this past week on the sewing machine making a delta kite. I've been a tad disappointed with the tendency of my box kites to dive to the right with the last failure taking my camera into the sea.
So new camera means new kite.
Most of the KAPers seem to use a 2M delta so that's what I decided on.
Finding ripstop in Cape Town was a right exercise in itself. I eventually settled on a heavyish Riptech from Linings and Textiles, 140g per sq metre, as opposed to the good stuff which is around 40g for the same size.
Dont even talk about the required CF spars at R269 each, 4 needed, so over a "gorilla" without shipping, its enough to make your nose bleed.
I settled on garden stakes which are 10mm thin wall steel tubing, they weigh 3g more than the wood dowel version and cost about the same, R29.
Flies fine in light winds, 10 to 15kmh today but the kite struggled somewhat with the 460g of the camera and cradle.
Anyhow here's my first decent shot from about 190m up. My setup took 170 pics of which 3 were keepers.
I want more line, but I've yet to find the proper 0.5mm line in Cape Town which doesn't cost R2 per metre.
So new camera means new kite.
Most of the KAPers seem to use a 2M delta so that's what I decided on.
Finding ripstop in Cape Town was a right exercise in itself. I eventually settled on a heavyish Riptech from Linings and Textiles, 140g per sq metre, as opposed to the good stuff which is around 40g for the same size.
Dont even talk about the required CF spars at R269 each, 4 needed, so over a "gorilla" without shipping, its enough to make your nose bleed.
I settled on garden stakes which are 10mm thin wall steel tubing, they weigh 3g more than the wood dowel version and cost about the same, R29.
Flies fine in light winds, 10 to 15kmh today but the kite struggled somewhat with the 460g of the camera and cradle.
Anyhow here's my first decent shot from about 190m up. My setup took 170 pics of which 3 were keepers.
I want more line, but I've yet to find the proper 0.5mm line in Cape Town which doesn't cost R2 per metre.
