Pemba kiters

Maputo kiters might be jealous from them...we have been suffering lack of wind these last months even if we had a few good sessions (cf. yesterday!).

Anyway, seeing such pristine waters may motivate some of us to go riding at Pirata (Carlo's place)!

If you need inquiry about the place, please check http://www.murrebue.com/

Enjoy the winter!

Greg

MOKA team

MOKA T-shirts and caps are ready!

Dear kiters,

Lucky you if you already registered to MOKA! The 2010 MOKA T-shirts ans caps are finally ready. 3 colours available for T-shirt (white, blue or black) and 3 sizes (M, L, XL) - 4 colours for the caps (white, blue, black or brown), unique size.

As a member of MOKA you can choose one T-shirt and 1 cap (coming with your registration). The rashies will come soon!

You can also buy extra items to offer to your friends, family, etc. You will then help promotion of MOKA all around the world!

T-shirt: 400 Mt

Cap: 200 Mt

Just send the sizes and colours you need to toubbab@hotmail.com. The first requesting wil be the first served!

Cheers,

Greg

MOKA Team

Be ready on Wednesday

Dear kiters,

We are all waiting for the wind to eventually decid to blow in Maputo. You won't have to wait much longer! Wind will start blowing on Wednesday morning until Friday noon!

Don't forget your wetsuit, rashvest, gloves, towel and hair dryer!

Hope to see a maximum of you on the beach on Wednesday!

Cheers,

Greg

MOKA Team

Updated member list

Here is the current member list for the MOKA. As you see, we are already 27 members which is good as I initially planned to have only 25! All other kitesurfer interested in bing a member of the MOKA is welcome to join!



This is currently the low season for kitesurfing as you might have all noticed, but we never know. You must get ready for every sigle windy day now, kite and board waiting at the entrance door of your house or even in the back of your car!

MOKA will also propose to occasionnal kitesurfers coming to Maputo, to subscribe for a daily membership, including all the services on the beach. We have still to figure out the amount of the daily fee and the modalities of subscribtion.

Thanks for all the members for your support and your contributions!

Cheers,

Greg
MOKA team

Such a perfect day...

Today was a good day. Between 15 and 25 knots during the whole day without any drop of rain!!! The South-East wind kept its promises! and offered us a very nice day to play in the water.

First member cards have been handed over to MOKA's member. Look how happy they are!!!

If you don't have yours, it's time to subscribe to MOKA and to send us a picture of you, your membership form filed and signed and 3000 Mt for the annual fee.

I wish you lots of days like the one we had today!

Cheers,

Greg

MOKA team

Wind forecasts

Check the Windguru website for wind forecasts. As you said in your comments, the forecasts are not so accurate on all these website. You generally need to register and to pay to have accurate data...

On Windguru, you need to proceed to a "spot search" and enter "Maputo". You'll see quite a lot of GPS points created and need to choose always the same one in order to have always the same reference. Once you've selected it, the forecasts appear for a period of 1 week.

Wind direction: basically the beach is oriented facing East / South-East. The arrow on the forecast shows the wind direction, meaning if the arrow is pointing down, the wind will come from the North. Good winds for Maputo are then North-East (arrow pointing down-left), East, South-East, South and even South-West, the best being South in the winter season (from April to August) and North-East during summer time (September to March).

If you see that the wind changes dramatically its direction every 2 hours, the wind will probably not be good at all. North wind is not good as it is off-shore wind.

Wind strenght: The interpretation of the wind strenght depends on the wind direction.

During summer time, when we have thermal winds picking-up in the afternoon, if you see wind increasing constantly between 11 am and 5 pm and turning from North to North-East during this laps of time, you are sure to have good and constant thermal wind during the whole afternoon. You need to add at least 6-7 knots to what is written, meaning that as soon as strenght's above 8 knots, you'll be able to kite.

During winter time, thermals are not working very well, meaning that even if you see the wind turning from North to North-East in the afternoon with a slight increase of strenght, the wind might stay off-shore. On the opposite, if you see South or South-East wind above 10 knots, you will be able to kite but the weather will probably be rainy...

I hope this will help you and I agree with the fact to set up a system to have real-time forecasts on our beach in Maputo!

Cheers,

Greg
MOKA team

New breathe for MOKA

Dear all,

MOKA's blog is on its foot again! This blog will allow all members (and future members) to follow what's going on about Kitesurfing in Mozambique. Here are a few themas the blog will speak about, but of course this is not an exhaustive list...

• News about the association
• News about kitesurf events in Mozambique
• Safety
• 2nd hand equipment to sell
• Kitesurf lessons
• MOKA's parties!
• Etc.

Anyone can leave a comment or send me the information he/she wants to share and I will post it for you.

Regarding 2nd hand equipment, I think we could do a data base accessible by any kitesurfer in order to facilitate the contact between sellers/buyers.

Make this blog your welcome page!

Cheers,

Greg for the MOKA team