Philthy,

Zack Kaplan stopped by the shop yesterday (one of the ORIGINAL Sarasota crew, a great guy, and as addicting to kiting his first two seasons as you can get). Just thought you Sarasotans might want to know.

He FLEW here... got his pilot's license and is doing great in real estate and other stuff. He and I use to dawn patrol at least 4 days a week in the winter at the Skyway prior to sunrise and then hustle off to work. Brought back alot of great memories seeing him (it had been awhile)

The funniest memory... him telling ALL his snap on customers he was SICK and couldn't deliver that day (a Monday) so that he could ride East beach all day in 20 plus with a bunch of us.

Ends up a pro-tographer got a great shot of him and yep... it made FRONT page of the sports section...


Caption : ZACK KAPLAN skies high over the Skyway Bridge on Monday.
(Forced perspective: he looked like he was 100 feet up and the bottom of his board said "kite animal")

He only worked at snap on a little longer after that one :?

It was classic.