I have been using the old Best Golf bag for a few times now and no
problem. I have even lend it to a friend and no problem either.

The current Best golf bag is bigger so I don't know how the airline will
treat it; however, I found that the word "GOLF" has some magic influence
to the airlines and they don't dare to ask any question.

Hung.

Klotz, Michael MD wrote:

>I have not yet been charged for my "Deceiver" golf bag. I tried the vacuum
bags, but North kites don't compact as well as others (removing the struts my
help). Also, what if you vacuum bag gets opened for inspection? I would hate
to have those guys trying to cram kites into a little bag.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: kitesurf@yahoogroups.com [mailto:kitesurf@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of
Dean Crowell
>Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 12:13 PM
>To: kitesurf@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [ksurf] packing for air travel
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>Great Advice - Thank you Simon. The last thing I want to do is spend $150 for a
"stealth" bag and then have to pay an additional $200 R/T to the airlines -
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>Dean
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>On Jan 18, 2007, at 9:49 AM, Simon King wrote:
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>All this talk about the fake golf bags etc. Here's what I did to go to Coche
Island over Christmas, friends on the same flight got charged $100 each way due
to big coffin bags of gear.
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>I purchased a big vacuum bags from Zellers for about $20 for two. I only ended
up using one of these as I was able to fit a 9, 12 and 16m2 kite in one bag.
Squeeze as much air as possible out of the struts, fold the kites neatly getting
as much air out of leading edge as possible. Place the kites into the vac bag
and then lay a face cloth inside where the vac valve will end up, this lets the
valve breath easier rather than trying to suck air through rip-stop. Seal the
zip-lock closure, grab your vac and suck the life out of it! Sure it still
weighed 25lb for the three kites but I was able to slip this 'brick' of kites
easily into the bag for my 16m2 and then inside my big MEC duffle bag along with
a couple of bars my harness and my short barrel Wipika pump.
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>What to do at the other end if you can't borrow a vacuum from the hotel? I made
a foam donut out of gardening knee pad that fit over the vac valve on the bag,
made a hole through the middle that fit my kite pump nozzle snuggly, get someone
to hold it over the valve, switch the hose on your pump over to DEFLATE and pump
away. Only took me 2-3 minutes to acheive the same results as with a vac at
home.
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>If doing this leave the kites vac'ed for as little time as possible. The bag I
used was 22" x 34".
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>For my board all I did was tape some pipe insulation around the entire edge,
wrapped it in cardboard, then stuffed it in a cheap snowboard bag. (I removed my
fins, footstraps and handle beforehand). It went on as fragile baggage. It maybe
helped that my board is only 125.
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>The kites went on as reg luggage, most of my clothes were in my carry-on. When
asked what was in the snowboard bag I just said 'a board'. No extra charges at
all.
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>(PS got the vac bagging idea from a Florida website... I think it was Paul
Menta's idea!)
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