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Asking $2000 for the lot open to reasonable offers Peter Lynn kite buggy Bomba 13 kite surfing kite 3.6 water foil 2.4 water foil 2 x harness’s Spare lines Spare bar Replacement value over $4k Open to reasonable offers, this setup was amazing and I could go out in all conditions with this variety of kites. Don’t have time to use it any more unfortunately. All gear is in good working order with no issues.

Ok... There is not much out there in terms of information about the Peter Lynn Waterfoil kite. The kite is old and pre-dates the Arcs. Most of us know this, but what most people assume and comment on in the internet, is that the Waterfoil is a dangerous kite and one should throw it into the bin. Well, I am always an optimist and I believe in adjusting and testing a kite until it either blows up in tests, gets ripped or actually flies better than originally designed. I did this with the so called "oh my God that is a crap kite ... The Hindenburg of kites... blahblah" Slingshot Link 2007 12m, and now it flies better or the same as my Ozone 2011 C4. Really easy re-launch and great upwind. All because I took the time to experiment with the bridles and adjusted the bar/lines to make it work! Foil kites have come a long way since those days, and most depower foils are now pretty much "safe as houses". They have great depower, turn far more quickly (unlike some kooks in Seabreeze commenting otherwise, still living in the commercialised world of inflatable kites), are easier to control, and almost coming close (if not better) to leading edge inflatable (LEI) kites. Some I am sure, will say they are way better. I tend to agree. Soon I believe foil kites will be as mainstream as your North and Slingshot kites in the shop, but still perhaps with a higher price tag unfortunately. Here I live in hope for it to be so. I digress. Lets' look at this thread, which clearly illustrates the "get rid of it" mentality with the PL Waterfoil... http://www.kiteforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=2388382&p=881715 I love the last post and the line ... "You'd be well advised to know what you're doing foil wise, or get rid of that kite. Do not expect depower at any rate " Well that is absolute bollocks, and this thread will prove it. Of course the kite does not come with depower. It's not meant to be a depower kite. It was designed to be a two-line, fixed-bridle, water re-launchable kite. Many kite surfers don't know that all their precious LEI kites actually started out as 2-line kites back in the 90s! Even the boards were not twin-tip style boards, but skis or planks, and don't get me started on the bar system! That didn't exist until the late 90s. Kite surfers used kite handles with safety-lines attached to their waste harness. And they did quite well on them too, doing all sorts of tricks. Even harnesses were not around then. Kite surfing has come a long way of course, but the kites are still relatively unchanged, in terms of their aero-dynamics. A kite still has to have that wing shape effect to give you lift. So I thought, well, if the PL Waterfoil is a wing, then why not adjust the bridles and turn the "wing" into a depower-able wing? And that's exactly what I did. I'll pause here for now to allow some thoughts to come through (or flames!), and I'll come back soon with some before and after modifications to the Waterfoil. I'll do a video as well showing how well these kites fly. cheers