A good fisherman never waste bait................sj

colinwill78 said...

the end bit was not recovered. I have wondered about its fate, it's out there somewhere....pointing at something. It probably fed a family of crabs.
i will have a service for it this weekend.

Wait a week and then have a look in the back of Kitehard's truck.

extra zing whenever i bumped my dangling fingernail

eeeyyyyeeewww... noice visual on that one

There is bound to be some stubbon boogies reminding you of your former full digit self over the years mate.. good luck for winter.

sounds great!!! (the beer and photos...not the collar bit)


hey, how good is the macro on the pentax w60!!! chaged the dressings today and the detail is increadible. Hard to believe it will be a finger one day.

was it too graphic??

obviously i'm not getting that doctor to fix my kite

colinwill78 said...

skiddz said...

colinwill78 said...
Thanks goes to the guys who assisted me back to shore, and if anyone has any of my gear i will be at the beach in the near future with beer .

Always glad to lend a hand. Looked painful, at the time I thought you got done by a jelly or something. And someone has your kite and stuff, and I dont remember seeing a rip so you might be lucky...

cheers mate. It wasn't too painful at that stage, but i knew it was coming..... So the vegas lives!!

Sadly no the vegas doesn't live, I was the bloke that gave you a tow in and i definetly saw the vegas tubling towards the beach with some nasty rips in it. Good excuse for a new kite though

Holy crap - it's Frankenfinger!!

Hope ya frankenfinger sorts itself out pronto and you can get back on the water bud.

getfunky said...

Holy crap - it's Frankenfinger!!

Col, maybe you could get a Mini-me version of a "Captain Hook" finger prosthesis,
sure would help in untangling lines and would certainly help with the "some stubbon boogies" quoted earlier

Humour for humour sake only Col, anything to hopefully cheer an ex-Clare-kiter

My wife commented that "this really is a dangerous sport" after seeing your pics.
I pointed out that a close mate of ours did exactly the same injury with a ski rope & the end of a slalom ski.......

Heal quickly Col, maybe the "Kevin Rudd New Kite fund" will get passed & help ease your pain

fossil

Col, before your next sesh you'd better talk to an instructor - maybe he can give you a pointer or two.

Thats sik mate! like I am sorry for you but geez is this sport hardcore or wat a good story to tel annyway!

Well my luck gets better. We got ransacked on the weekend and they took alot of **** including stacks of irreplaceable digital photos. Unsure of insurance for rest of stuff at this stage. They didn't take any kite stuff

The rights of way and stuff will always be hotly debated, but to say that kite lines aren't dangerous is a well known dumb-thing-to-say. Most reasonable kiters will agree that lines can be dangerous. The remaining think it will never happen to them.
People, please be aware of the potential for damage caused by your lines. I got off lightly with just a finger tip gone, (i'll still milk it for all it's worth,) but one tenth of a second earlier it would've been my whole finger, a full second earlier it would've been my hand.

Thanks to those well wishers and one-liner comedians for brightening my day. Stitches come out thursday and i'll put in some more photo's if it's gory enough.

So Darwin kiters get the most out of this windy weather, it's due to end on Saturday, when i may be back on the water. But probably not till next weekend.

Col.