Kite Blog

19/01/2025 Blackheath

The anticyclonic murk has descended again so it was a grey morning on Blackheath.

There was a light SE breeze so I was able to fly the 1.5m Rokkaku kite that was 'found' recently in the loft at Hackney. On unrolling it I spotted the makers label which dates the kite as 1988 made by Morgan Kites of York.

The kite was almost stable on about 200ft/60m of line but mostly needed some input and running line downwind.

I set up a Zen again but did not fly all that long as the sail was just a bit overpowered and the prospect of changing kites in the cold conditions was not appealing.

Felix

So, this is an early kite in our scheme of things, made by Morgan Kites in 1988. It flew very well today in the light SE breeze of about 4mph.

12/01/2025 Blackheath

It was sunny in Hackney when I set out but there was thick fog on the way to Blackheath close to the river.

There was an almost clear blue sky on Blackheath apart from an advancing high level bank of cloud to the west and north.

I did set up a Zen but the air movement was hardly perceptible and from most points of the compass. A new release (11/2024) of an ECM session from 2014 led by Jakob Bro provided an interesting backdrop for standing around feeling the sun radiating enough heat to warm the surface of my outer layers!

Having flown for a few minutes I eventually wound the very wet lines and packed the equally wet kite just before 11:00. The bank of cloud had been steadily approaching and it was completely clouded over by the time I was back in Hackney.

Felix

Sunny morning, 12th January 2025.

05/01/2025

Overnight snow had mostly melted by the time I travelled to Lauriston Village but the rain was heavy.

No kite flying today so our New Year flight may be on the 12th January!

Felix