Extreme Athletes make History in Off-shore Kite Race

Thirty Kiteboarders race fifty miles from Florida to Bimini in inaugural event.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL – Thirty extreme athletes crossed the forty-nine nautical miles of Gulf stream on Friday, December 2nd in the hopes of being the first to kiteboard to Bimini.
Kiteboarding, an intense twist on windsurfing; consists of kiteboarders riding atop what is similar to a surfboard powered by the wind using a large kite. These kites, some as big as 25 square meters in size, create immense power. Kiteboarders regularly skim across the water at speeds of forty mph and perform crowd-awing leaps of over thirty feet high. America watched the Rebel Billionaire, Sir Richard Branson and presidential candidate Senator John Kerry get hooked on kiteboarding last year and the sport has grown by leaps and bounds. Now, another extreme Brit, Guinness World Record holder Neil Hutchinson has elevated the sport to an entirely new level, a race across the Bermuda Triangle from Florida to the Bahamas. Hutchinson was honored for kiteboarding from Key West, FL to Varadero, Cuba in December 2001

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