Sled Kite Plans

For The MBK Skewer Sled Kites

The 1-Skewer Sled Kite

The 2-Skewer Sled Kite

Tips And Hints

These sled kite plans are aimed at summarizing the more in-depth instructions to be found under the How To Make A Kite section of this website. It's up to you to do a neat job and keep the weight down!

Could you do me a small favor at this point? Just take a few seconds to complete a very short survey. Thanks!

Apart from the first point, 'tape' means 'clear sticking tape' for the 1-skewer version and 'electrical tape' for the 2-skewer version. Electrical tape is just a bit heavy for the smaller kite!

1. reinforce the sail edges by adding clear sticking tape over the outlines, then trimming back to the outlines
2. secure the sail to the spar ends and spar centers using short lengths of tape
3. at the towing points, add tape to both sides of the plastic, extending out a short distance away from the plastic
4. take a length of bridle line about 6 times as long as the kite is high, and tie each end tightly around the towing point tape, crushing it
5. each tail can simply be threaded between the bottom end of the vertical spar and the sail, then looped through itself and tightened
6. attach flying line to the bridle with a shiftable knot, to get it exactly center - or just put an overhand loop into the bridle after ensuring it is dead-center
7. adjust the length of one tail to trim out any tendency to hang left or right in flight

Hope you've had fun using these sled kite drawings!

Last updated: 24 May 2008