Chris Moore in Kiteboarding Magazine Article

[Erick]

In this month Kiteboarding Magazine there is an article called "Anybody's Race" pretty interesting article by the way. Our Chris Moore talks about The Tampa Bay Kitemasters race and why these kinds of races are becoming more appealing to the average kiteboarder.

Good Job Chris!!

Attached is an extract of the Article.

When IS the race, btw?? I hope this mag isn't as sue happy as Real.

what race

[Steve-O]

Just a consideration for next year's Kitemaster's.......

I feel having the race in the gulf gives us so many more potential race days.

The race could be run North to South or South to North.

The trolley system could be used as easy transportation for everyone. No worries on how to get back to your car, even in a self rescue situation.

(Sand Key to Pass-a-Grille or vice versa.)

Safety is far better as racers have many more outs all along the gulf.

We are blessed here in Tampa Bay to have so many options, and we should showcase that uniqueness to everyone. Of all places we should never be skunked on a downwind race.

So much work has gone into this years race, but I feel narrowing our wind window to a specific direction doesn't take full advantage of what we have.

Just food for thought.......what other race has so many potential options?

I watched all the races this year have such issues finding the "right" wind. If we play our cards right, we could pick the day.....just about guarantee a weekend race.

[amber]

What race? Thanks Tom. After hours of work done by our race committee of volunteers we just decided to make the wind stop blowing starting Feb 1st (wait...did it ever start this year?). sorry about that. ha ha!

The race WILL happen. We've got 9 more months to include it as the "2008" TBKM. LOL! After so much time and energy putting things together and so many people wanting to participate we didn't want to do it half-assed. It sucks that there hasn't been any good NE but this is not normal for our area for this time of year. Last winter we had nice NE days all the time.

There was a lot of talk before we decided it was "back to the bay" and i'm not going to bore you with it all but we appreciate suggestions for future races. Hopefully we'll get some great weekend wind and have another great event.

[bayflite]

there >>>WILL<<< be strong NE winds before this season ends in june.
you guys can't wait till next season to have this race!
april/may winds are dominated by east winds, just ask raul, he'll tell ya.
as for the gulf...i love riding the gulf...but races in the gulf exposes us way more to...well...you know.