Skypilot Blog
Maintenance on wednesday evening
I'll be upgrading the site tonight around 7pm pacific time. Expect some bumpiness, it shouldn't take more than an hour. It's a security upgrade so do not expect anynoticeable change on the site. Sorry for the inconvenience, perfect time for everyone to grab a while am busy upgrading. more
Email Notifications : On !
New feature that should have been here since a long time now: email notifications. You can now subscribe to any post, even without posting messages or comments. You can even subscribe to any message posted by a specific user. Whatever you subscribe to, you'll receive an email for any updates/new post / comments. Not only for the blog and the forum, this... more
16 Days in Mexico
Well I'm off to Mexico for 16 days - going to a small fishing town where its windy and warm - its an out of the way location - ill periodically post pics if the internet ids available or if my satellite internet is working.- see you guys later. more
Rss feeds for the forums, blogs and comments
I just added a new block in the sidebar that lists all the Skypilot Kiteboarding RSS feeds. On top of this, you have one feed for each thread if you want to track a specific discussion. Just click on the feed you want to follow, and it'll launch your RSS feed reader. more
The new TRACK feature
A nice little new feature of our new system is the ability to track all answers to the thread you participate to. When viewing your account page (you can do this by clicking on your name in the left sidebar), youcan see 4 tabs over your picture:View | Edit | TRACK | ContactThe track tabs is a page that lists... more
State of the new forums
I see some people are a little bit overreacting in the forums... I see their point, the transition was everything but smooth, because the old site was getting really buggy, and most of the users were locked out from the site. The previous site was using a fairly complicated set up. There was two databases, one for the forums, one... more
Updated !
Welcome in the new Skypilot's website ! Lots of improvment, especially on user login , and new sections. In the transition, the old content has not been migrated, but we will try to set up a subdomain (something like http://www.old.skypilotkiteboarding.com/) if you want to access the previous site. The new site has been tested, but expect some minor bugs here... more
Pyro Pro
I took my Pyro Pro dry suit out for its first run yesterday and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. I of course expected to be warm but it was really quite comfortable which I didn't expect. I would have to say in warmer weather I will go back to my wet suit but for our icy winters... more
Time to get back to it....
Well i have been off the water far longer than I would like but its time to get back out. Ordering a dry suit to survive this brutal cold weather and enjoy some 25+ knots. See you on the water soon! Update: Pyro Pro and 6m Rise shipped! more
Oct 25th Ferry Terminal Session in the sun
I woke up in the morning and didn't see any of the trees moving so i figured EC got the forecast wrong again. I had this feeling so i packed the work van and went to the terminal for a wind check, to my surprise there was a lot of kitable wind. I made a couple of phone calls that... more