Early in August we took our new marlin kite out for a fly. For being on the ocean we just haven’t had much of the kite-friendly winds that we expect. Maybe there’s a perfect time of day, but we haven’t found it yet. The marlin does, in fact, fly. It is a bit tricky to get up in the air and if the wind dies out even a little the thing dips its nose and heads for the ground in a hurry. It’s hard to recover from that, but we could sometimes. Usually he ended up with a scuffed nose. Once you get it up high enough that the winds are a little better it’s easy, but that’s the rub! With one to pull the string and one to throw the kite and both running it’s just possible. What fun.
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