ARRRR! Ye be speakin the truth! Captain Bluebeard will be makin way to that island Monday with plenty of metal and nylon booty in tow.

Got to Saint Simons early this afternoon and it's quite beautiful here weather-wise. We got groceries, spent some time in the pool and headed to the beach late afternoon.... I fine tuned and flew the cr@p out of my Symphony 2.1.4... what a load of fun just to static fly!... can't wait to get my girls into this!!!

Can't report on the JI beach as I'm still 20 minutes north of it, but the SSI beach is great. I'll probs get a sunset session in on Monday and Wednesday here on Saint Simons, hopefully towing wifey in the tandem some!

I'll report as it comes!

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Quote: Originally posted by jrhook   Hope there's room for that RC Dune Buggy You mean the high speed beer delivery truck?

It is funny you guys should say this, because I was debating on whether or not to bring it back this year. It distracted me from doing some kiting the last two years. I am also dealing with less room in the car this year. We will see if I can pare down my packing enough to fit it in the car. I would love to bring it again! It definitely gets a great perspective of the buggies when you tape a camera to the top.

Have fun everyone! Me, Amanda, Abigail, and Hannah will miss you all very much. Please take tons of pictures and post them up for us that have to miss this round. Already looking forward to JIBE 2019. Wishing you all safe travels and good winds. Until next time my friends....

Mougl, you will have one more hunk of phantom when you get here!

over at my buddy Jim's place on the weekend - his shop was busy with cutting, grinding, welding, cutting, swearing, welding, buggy building, rack building...
5 days of work and then hitting road arriving sunday afternoon.
There will be 3 couples coming down from Ontario Canada this year

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Mougl, you will have one more hunk of phantom when you get here!

Yarrrrr! That be the final piece in the collection! The perfect quiver!

Hey Mark,
I'm in Toronto right now enjoying an Iced Cap. I'll also be arriving at Jekyll on Sunday. Does that make me an honorary member of the Ontario crew?

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Hey Mark, I'm in Toronto right now enjoying an Iced Cap. I'll also be arriving at Jekyll on Sunday. Does that make me an honorary member of the Ontario crew?

Absolutely Frank! How long you in TO? are you in the actual city or west of it in the suburbs or Mississauga/Oakville etc. Just in case i need help packing kites this week :-)

Downtown Toronto today and tomorrow, Mississauga on Wednesday. Man, I haven't even had time to check my own kites! Looks like I'll just throw them in the truck and look them over after I get there.

Hey Frank,
how far downtown?
I work at the corner of Yonge St and Queens Quay.
Let me know if you want to grab a coffee.

Mark are you cutting and working on your buggy or building a new one? That looks like a lot of fresh custom work you did.

Howard, U2U sent.

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Mark are you cutting and working on your buggy or building a new one? That looks like a lot of fresh custom work you did.

I'm just building a rack for transport and Jim likes building so even though he has a nice home made buggy he is totally rebuilding the front end and back end and will use existing rails for now and re-do those later. he wants to have axle adjustment and a some other things worked into the new design.
I'm still bringing the same chameleon buggy

Hey guys... can't wait for y'all to get down here... I had a killer sunset session this evening on Saint Simons... while it was only an hour (7:30 to 8:30) it was so awesome to be back in the saddle again. Not to mention it was my first extended session with the 12m Peak... kinda a shame since I've owned the thing for like 2 years and this is the first time I've used it more than 30 min... killer onshore at around 8-10 mph and just cruuuuuuuisin'.......

The in-laws are keeping the kids for the evening tonight and Wednesday, so (weather permitting) wifey and I are gonna get a bucket of chicken wings from Ingles, picnic dinner on the beach and ride the tandem as long as the sun allows!

Jim, come out if you can make it and I might save you a chicken wing

Touched down on JI today... beautiful as ever!!

If opportunity allows, I may ride tomorrow,... we shall see!

Hey folks

Plan to represent the dark side with my landsailer. Won't be able to make it til Wed. Where is the gathering/staging area. Great Dunes?

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Hey folks Plan to represent the dark side with my landsailer. Won't be able to make it til Wed. Where is the gathering/staging area. Great Dunes?

Usually we set in from the ramp or stairs by Tortuga JacS-P-A-M-L-I-N-K-s. There is another put in on the south of the island that is an unmarked beach entrance over the dunes by the south water tower.

Thanks Demonknight!

After a first day of wet riding in the rain, I can say God Bless a Carport!!!



Pretty good first day gang... off to the Turtle center in the morning with the kids and I'll see y'all after lunch!!!

Not sure if it's an iPhone thing, but the pic above is not showing on my phone... just in case it's the same for you:

https://flic.kr/p/27avv8g
And another:
https://flic.kr/p/27avvbn