Plumb Beach in Brooklyn?

Moto · Since 03 Sep 2006 2698 Posts Still a gojo pimp! Moto Mouth

Anyone know anything about Plumb Beach near sheepshead bay in Brooklyn? A friend of mine is wanting to get into kiting and has seen kiteboarders there.

Any NY kite forums people would recommend? Wind conditions? Length of season?

Gman · Since 11 Feb 2006 4911 Posts Portland Unstrapped

http://nyka.org/blog/?page_id=290

lots of options - he should talk to the Jones beach group (take the subway to your sess)

Ataud_Verde · Since 04 Oct 2009 36 Posts 40.59°N 73.86°W

An accident waiting to happen..

Beach is small, at high tide hardly any room to launch and lined with trees. Behind the trees the Belt Parkway. At least a couple of times in the past few years someone manged to get a kite on the highway..

notheless it is the closest kite spot to Manhattan, kind of crowded with 15 /20 people on any given day plus some pole surfer. Doable year round if you dress up properly. Best conditions SW and S. E and ESE doable too. Water is flat (it's behind the eastern tip of the Rockaways) and shallow. Shoes/booties are recommended because there's a lot of crap at the bottom (somehow has been used as a junkyard in the past).

NO subway nor any public transp nearby.

JOnes Beach is waaay out in Long Island.