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Adventure on lake garda

There is a group of 5 italian boys from Riva that are learning kitesurfing with us. Saturday they had there first lesson. Manuel is the only one speaking English and he translates the words I do not know in Italian. These guys are so much fun to teach! The first lesson they all reached the goals: downwind bodydragging and relaunching the kite. Andrea did an upwind bodydrag without getting the theorie of it. At the end the wind dropped and they were swimming for a while. The lake is getting warmer, so after the lesson they jumped in again for fun!

We are really enjoying it to teach them and we were looking forward to sunday afternoon. The wind didn’t look too good but it picked up. I had 4 of them doing upwind bodydraggin in the water, when the motor of my boat stopped. I didn’t no why but maybe the level of gasoline was too low. After one minute Alexandro, the teacher of the school in Navene, drove by. Alltough I am normally very scared of him I managed to get his spare benzine. I think in Italian he told me how stupid I was to fill the tank not enough… or something like that.
I hope that this extra benzine would solve the problem. But it didn’t! The engine still did not start. I coached all the guys back to the boat. Only William was too far away. So I took a board and kitesurfed to him to tell him to bodydrag to the boat. He managed to do it:) So I was with 5 Italians floating on the water. I called some teacher from the Navene school for help. And after some time Alexandro took my students and Christiaan rescued me and the boat to the harbour of Malcesine. There we found out that the engine had a big problem. No way it was going to bring us back to Limone. My students were brought to the beach of Navene. I was in the harbour, so I was worrying my head of about them. They are the best students ever, they found me! But how to get to limone?
Alexandro offered to bring us back with his mega RIB. This was a very nice surprise because normally all I understand from his Italian are some bad words and angry looks. I was pretty sure he hates me for some reason. His boat is very huge and has 225 hp. so in no time we were back.. We waved our rescuers goodbye and walked back to the school. After a pizza and two beer we decided it was an adventurous day The next day I brought the boat to Garda to the Yamaha dealer. A few days later it was fixed! Great! Some new parts and some cleaning did the job!

Thanks Max, Chris and Alex from kiteclub Navene!

10. June Wind+sun= :)

Hooray hooray, the sun is shining again! Today we opened the school at 7 am again, and finally there were no clouds in the morning, so that was a great beginning of the day. Unfortunately still no north wind in the morning, but that gave us some time to meet some people, eat an ice cream and lay down in the sun, because we’re getting white again. At the end of the morning the south wind picked up so we prepared 4 kites and let the students know that it was time to have some fun on the water.
There were 2 new people, Victor and Manon, and they already did some kitesurfing before so they didn’t have to start from the beginning. Victor was ripping the waves in no time with a 11,5m Kahoona and Manon enjoyed the upwind bodydragging. Bryan, our great Scottish doctor, made an amazing progress today, and he made his first cm on the board No Bryan, you did really great!
Christian also did the upwind bodydragging and he’s also doing great!
After 3 hours everyone was exhausted so we went back to the beach to pick up Jenny and Michael. There was still enough wind! After a quick change la Barca went out on the water again, conquered the big waves finding the best wind and to give Michael and Jenny a chance to have fun too! Well, they did! Michael was riding on his board like a pro and Jenny enjoyed the steering and body dragging, while it was her second time on the water.
At 6 pm everybody was back on the beach and we were a bit in a rush so we dumped everything in the school and locked it after a really satisfying day.
In the evening we planned to go to Malcesine on the other side of the lake to go to a concert and have dinner there. Together with Michael and his wife we went there by ferry, but after we heard the concert would be an opera, we decided to just go for dinner. Otherwise we would fall asleep.
Together with Lucca, the master chief of the ferry, and all the English reps from the hotels in Limone we had a great time in a good restaurant, eating too much pizza.
Really really tired we went to bed that night, knowing we have to get up at 5.45 am again. Yes.. thank you for feeling sorry for us

Missing kite is back, who lost a board?

The missing JN kite is back! We are so happy with the friendly people here in Italy

Today we found a kiteboard. Probably from a kitesurfer in Campione. If you lost it, get in touch with us!

6. June 40 knots of wind on lago di Garda..!

Yes indeed…waauw!! Sometimes nature does things that really amaze you. Also this day. In the morning  it all started really sad with a lot of rain and no wind. Klaus was ready to get his first lesson, but unfortunately the weather didn’t get better in the morning so we moved his lesson to the afternoon. Sitting, waiting, wishing… no wind in the afternoon. So we decided to go home and do some work on the computer and before that do some shopping in the supermarket. While we were looking for lots of ice tea, bbq stuff, snacks and waxstrips, Philip (one of the clients who’s using our ‘join the ride’service every weekend) called us that the wind picked up and we should go on the water.
So we went back as fast as the tunnels and traffic jam let us, and during the ride to Limone we saw that the wind was very strong and big waves were all over the lake. Great!
We went out on the lake with 5 persons and 4 kites, and the wind was really strong. It was Klaus’very first lesson on the water, so we could imagine he might we scared, but he wasn’t scared at all! He did really great with the kite and kept it in the air almost all the time. He is talented!
We dropped Philip and Petra as well, and Philip was quite overpowered using a 10m kite. Petra used a 6m, which was enough for these conditions, even for jumping.
 After a while everybody was safely back on the boat, and it was a miracle no one got seesick because of the huge waves. They were at least 2,5 meter high and sitting in the motorboat driving a against the waves was like sitting in a rollercoaster. Fortunately Mika was totally in control and she drove the boat around the lake slow and careful.
When we arrived nearby the harbor to leave the boat there, Mika received a message that it was not possible to park the boat in the harbor again. There have been some problems before about a place for the motorboat and it looked like we had to park the boat outside of the harbor again.
We put all the stuff on the wall and were all happy we survived J

On our way back to Riva Philip called us that one kite was missing. It must have fall out of the boat during our time on the water he said. So Mika went back by boat and tried to find it, which was very hard because of the big waves and strong current. Unfortunately she couldn’t find anything, so we went looking for it by car on several places. The next day we went to all the surf schools in Riva and Torbole but nobody found it. So the chance that the kite will show up again gets less, and that is so frustrating! It must be somewhere! Now we are thinking what to do next, but we still hope someone will find the kite and brings it back to its owner.

At the end of the story we were eating a pizza at Bella Riva at 22.15, and the day ended at little bit different than we expected.

13 m JN kite black/ blue is missing on lake garda.

This kite was packed up compleet with bar in a black bag. During the strong wind we had today it felt in the water. (the struts where inflated so it is probably going to drift to Riva/ Torbole.

If you find it you will get a reward. Thanks, team wind riders

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