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Don't you know what kiteboarding is?

Here is a definition taken from Wikipedia.

Kitesurfing, kiteboarding, uses wind power to pull a rider through the water on a small surfboard or a kiteboard (which is like a wakeboard). Generally kiteboarding refers to a style of riding known as free-style or wakestyle where as kitesurfing is more waveriding oriented. These two styles usually require different boards and specific performance kites.

World Record for Wharry's team

The stroy taken from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/surfing/stories/2004/may2004/kitesurfing/kitesurfing.shtml

Cornwall's Andreya Wharry leads her team to new world record for women kitesurfers. They make the first kitesurf crossing from the Isles of Scilly to Watergate Bay.

Dreya hoped the 70 mile crossing would raise over £10,000 for charity and make the Guinness Book of Records for the largest kitesurf crossing.

The kitesurfers travelled to St Martins on 25 June and waited until the wind conditions are right to make the five hour crossing. They travelled around the north coast of Cornwall at speeds of up to 20mph.

Individual crossings have been successfully made across the Irish Sea and English Channel, but this attempt is a double first in both the route and the number of riders taking part.

Joining Dreya, who is ranked ninth in the world, was current world champion Cindy Mosey (New Zealand), world No.2 Ingrid Kollbichler (Austria) and world No.3 Petra Goeschl (Germany/Holland), along with five others.
The girls at Watergate
The girls at Watergate Bay before they fly off off for the world record attempt

"This route has never been done before and coming in at Watergate Bay was the obvious choice - it's where I learned to kitesurf, and it's home to me," said an enthusiastic Dreya.

"I was also the first person to kitesurf in the Scillies so this crossing is a natural link between the two."

The crossing will benefit two charities - the Silke Gorldt Foundation and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (R.N.L.I.).

The Silke Gorldt Foundation is an International charity set up in memory of German Silke Gorldt, who died in a kitesurfing accident in June 2002 when she was ranked second in the world.

The Foundation run camps educating children about how to kitesurf safely, as well as providing financial help for people who have suffered injuries kitesurfing.

"I was talking to friends about how it would be nice to do something to remember Silke by, and to enjoy the sport that she loved," said Dreya.

"Everyone taking part knew Silke, and I thought it would be really nice to get all the girls together and do something that Silke would have been proud to do.

What would be more fantastic than kiting up the coast with 10 of her friends? The whole idea stems from Silke's huge sense of adventure - she would have loved this."