Are Peter Lynn kites heavy ??..

Short answer is yes, they are heavy and I know I still have one. They were made out of a ripstop nylon called carrington. They were designed by Peter with the "auto zenith" feature so that he could launch the kite on the grass at the lake near his farm and then step into his kite powered catamaran and sail it without assistance.
But they flew slow (part of the design) and turned even slower, definitely not for kite looping! Relauch was possible and got better with practice, but if the wind dropped a bit and the kite was laying flat on the water it was near impossible to relaunch. They also got water inside them fairly quickly. They lacked bottom end too, so they built some really big ones but they just moved too slowly and the auto zenith was a total PITA for anyone other than a beginner because riding one handed required contorting your body so that one hand was always on the bottom of the bar to stop the kite climbing into the upper window and losing power.
They also had the ability to wine glass in gusty conditions and turn into a spinning kitemare, especially the high aspect ones.

For powering a kite cat, where you are sitting down, they were near perfect!

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timmybuddhadude said..
Hi.....thanks for that
Peter Lynn swell I was looking at...
I only do open ocean... reefs and waves with inflatables etc...dropped one once in about seven years.....although I had a couple of years 'off' from it .. But I go waaaay over 2km out sometimes

Are they heavy to relaunch if dunked like rrd religion? That heavy ???
And not quick turning like reos etc?

Really? ...So what you said about riding one handed is pretty awful....is it really that bad ......with the swell also as it moves up?? So basically they are not that good for advanced riders ??..


Really appreciate all that you wrote
Many thanks

Sorry I'm showing my age taking yoiu back to the ARC style kites, but the swell is just another inflatable. I have not flown a swell although I have seen a few around years ago.
The swell should be easy to relaunch and does not have that one handed steering issue because it is an inflatable. Its also a 3 strut wave kite.
Peter Lynn has to be around 80yo now, he is famous for his large foil display kites, as well as a huge variety of power kites, but he sold his company to a company in the Netherlands many years ago and has nothing to do with the brand anymore AFAIK.

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timmybuddhadude said..
Ok thanx brilliant ...do you think the swell kite is heavy like u said the other ones are?
Rrd religion was really heavy....

Can't say, have not seen a recent one. RRD have always tended to be heavy, so much so that we used to joke the name meant RRDacron. They used a lot of dacron instead of sailcloth to make their kites better able to take a beating in the waves, but it didn't help and only made their kites heavy to handle. More recent models I've seen use less dacron in the canopy but thats all I can say about them.

I have a 7m Swell and it does not seem to be heavier than the equivalent Drifter.