At the moment, my favourite kind of wind is direct cross-shore (like parallel). This is because I can practice launching left and right and can get to shore if all else fails by body dragging towards the shore.

There's been times when the wind looks like it's 'slightly' cross offshore (like 5 degrees out to see, but otherwise cross shore).

So the question in, what's the maximum degrees offshore I should go out in? I guess I need to allow a comfortable buffer should the wind swinging round off shore (of which my only answer would be to self rescue with deflated kite (inflated struts)).



In the crappy attached diagram 3 would be my cut off. Thanks!