Are you headed on kitesurfing vacation soon to somewhere isolated with not a strip mall (and unfortunately a local kite shop) for miles? If so, well lucky you! But there are a couple key essentials to take along with you if you have the extra space in your NSI deceiver golf bag. The last thing you want is to wind up with a broken line that ruins the rest of your kiteboarding trip.
1. 2 Extra Kite Lines- The chances of snapping one of your lines are actually pretty good. If you’ve owned your kite for awhile, your lines might have stretched over time in which case you’ll need to tie them to a post and stretch the shorter line until they are all the same length.
2. An Extra Chicken Bone- I know lots of people that have lost what’s also known as a “donkey d*ck” when the little screw comes loose. It can be a big pain to kite without it since you’ll come unhooked much more often.
3. A Repair Kit-The Airtime DIY Kite Repair Kit is one of our favorites because it comes complete with scissors, seam grip glue, 20ft of fiberglass tape, dacron repair tape, and lots of other helpful goodies.
4. An Extra Pump Hose-If you break or lose your pump hose, that could put the kabosh on the rest of your kite trip. If you think you can blow up your kite with your mouth, don’t bother, we’ve tried!
5. Extra screws and Fins for your Best or Slingshot kiteboard- In case you break off a fin while riding over the tropical reefs of Tahiti, these will be clutch.
