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High as a kite With it being cold and windy, it's just not been practical to do much of anything, except mess about.

The newly discovered Sotonmet website archives show an average wind speed of over 22 knots for both Saturday Sunday (thanks Richard).

Here you see Pat struggling to control my capricious kite from Lady Jane's back deck.

The kite been kicking around, unused, in the fish hold for some time now. All things considered, it's survived the last couple of years pretty well.

This kite needs a pretty stiff breeze to stay up, so no problems there then.

The reaction of other folk going by in their boats, from amusement to simply ignoring us, was interesting. Labels: flying, high, kite, wind, windy