Mounting the Flying Lines

How to correctly mount the flying lines

Your kite comes ready to fly - nothing left to be mount. You should however check the lines before every use and if you should discover a knot or a damage you should replace the line. You can get replacement lines at your local dealer or directly from boom-kites.com.

The lines are color coded and structured differently to avoid confusion. The kite end of the flying lines (front) end in loops which attach to knots on the kite. The brake lines end in knots which attach to loops on the kite. Both front flying lines come in the same color, where the left one has sleeved loop ends marked red, the right one has sleeved loop ends marked red. The left rear flying line is red and sleeved marked red, the right rear leader line is blue and sleeved marked green. All sleeves are sewn carefully and securely. Simply have the same color sleeving on the same side of the kites and connect knots to loops (or loops to knots) and your lines will be properly attached.
We only use the best available quality for our lines and make continuous tests. Our suppliers know about these tests and they are also interested in improving the quality. The front lines are oversized because they bear the greater load when kiting. You can be sure that they are strong enough and with good care and setup it is very unlikely you will have to end a session because of a snapped line. You should however note:
- a single knot in the line will decrease its maximum load by about 50%. (Take particular care at the ends of the lines. They can easily flick up and knot themselves.)
- check the lines before every use for knots and tangles
- the most convenient way to store the lines is to keep them attached to the kite and the bar - you can easily check the lines while unwinding them from the bar.
After winding the bars on the bar fix them with a loop - please see later in this manual how to do that.

If you need to replace lines - here you can see how this is done:

Front flying lines at the bar:

The rear flying lines are connected the same way into the loops of the rear leader lines - this is how it looks when done:

Now connect the flying lines to the kite - take care to have the flying lines parallel to each other.

Please sort out the bridle of the kite and take care to have no tangles. Here you see the front speed system connecting the A-bridle lines directly to the front part of the speed system, the B and C lines connecting to the pulley and the brake lines directly connected to the rear part of the speed system:

A tip for untangling the speed system, if you lay the kite out on its back and stand at the trailing edge and separate the left and right side then find the front bridles and make sure they are clear from the front of the kite to the attachment point then all the lines will be untangled. Then all you need to do is make sure there are no twists in the speed system from the A-line attachment point to the pulley, and no knots in the brakes, then the bridles will be clear and ready to go.

The part of the speed system with the pulley is the part that will be connected to the front flying lines:

And the part of the speed system that connects to the brake bridle will be attached to the rear flying lines

Now the right half of the kite is attached:

This is how it looks after all flying lines were attched to the kite

After all lines are conencted please check the lines again for tangeles and knots.
When winding the lines begin to wind the leader lines around the bar just beside the chicken loop until you reach the thin flying lines. Wind those along the bar usinfg the winders and just before you reach the end of the flying lines fix them using this knot:

Greg adds: When packing up, if you take 3 of the kite bridle ends and larks-head them together with the 4th end then you don't get any tangles.

Links to the Emergency Quick Release and the Safety Quick Release.


This setup is mounted on all BOOM SKITEs of minimum 4.5 m2 size.