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New Within this year Volume 12, Number 1, Summer 1996 ~nes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Contents Kite Fishing Indonesian Style / 27 Using basic materials and simple but effective rigs, Indonesian fishermen continue, as they have for centuries, to make a living using kites to fish. By Eiji Ohashi. Commitment to Play: Kite Festival at Berck-sur-Mer / 30 Great food, kites, company and historic ambiance combine to create an excellent festivaL By Craig M. Wilson with photographs by Craig M. Wilson and David Gomberg. St. Elmo's Fire / 33 Fact, legend and advice to kitefliers caught in the glow. By Jan Fischer. Norway: Isegran Dragefestival / 36 "Norwegians look for any excuse for a party. The kite festival is a good excuse." By Mel Govig. POWER KITES: A Special Report / 42 Survey of Traction Kites / 42 From the user-friendly to the high performance. By Jim Welsh. Ted Dougherty: Key Inventor in Traction Kiting / 46 The trend to "bags" started somewhere. This is where. By W. Bryon Caver. Buggying Down / 49 A Brit gives the straight skinny on Buggy Boogie Thang 2. By Andrew Beattie. Whither Kitesailing? / 50 A candid commentary on what's solved and what isn't. By Peter Lynn. Pin Collecting Is Dead. Isn't It? / 60 Cloisonne madness has a new intensity. By master "pinhead" himself, David Gomberg. Caribbean Kite Company 1099 N.E. 45 Street Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33334 U.S.A. Letter from the Publisher / 9 Tel: 305-776-5433 Letters /10 Fax 305-776-5434 Innovations / 12 The Euro-Baleno by Claudio Capelli. Caribbean Kite• Company Design Workshop / 14 P.O. Box 39, Lucea The Fold Black by Andreas Agren. Hanover, Jamaica, W.1. What's New: Kites / 17 Tel: 809-956-267 Fax: 809-956-2677 The 333 from Guildworks; the X4i from Buena Vista; the Spec from Jordan Air; the Gyro­ IGte from Gyro-IGte; the Ghost from Nick James; and the Marilyn from Sky Delight. • What's New: Books / 21 Caribbean Kite Company Sport Kite Magic! by David Gomberg; two new books on kite aerial photography; two books Weidestrasse 147 on kiting personalities; plus two book obituaries. 22083 Hamburg, Germany Tel: 040-220 13 59 Fax: 040-220 16 45 It Works For Me / 41 In the Wind / 59 With the story of two kite festivals in Miami, Florida, by Mel Govig. For the Record / 62 Empty Spaces in the Sky / 64 Ray Holland, Clyde Smith, Juan Figueroa, Elmer Wharton, George Wilcox and Pat Gilgallon. SkyGailery / 68 The highflying graphic art of Michael Goddard of Derbyshire, England. Celebrating 20 Years of Kite Lines! / 53 Kite Lines Bookstore, Back Issues and Other Goodies / 54 Classifieds / 66 Directory of Outlets / 70 Pocket Kite Calendar / Insert Caribbean Kite Company Trooping through the streets of Fredrikstad, Norway are some of the least inhibited kitefliers you will ever meet.