About Us
For the love of kiting.
I’m Delphius Symington, an electronic engineer, an avid kitesurfer and the creator of Cape Kiting.
My kitesurfing journey started in late 2017. After trying kitesurfing for the first time I was mesmerised by the incredible power of the kite and the adrenaline rush that goes with it. Kitesurfing quickly became my favourite hobby.
Around the same time I was busy designing and building a simple weather station. This station was capable of measuring temperature, relative humidity and atmospheric pressure.
Kitesurfing lives and dies by the wind, which makes it an unpredictable sport, especially if you don’t live near a kitesurf spot. This got me thinking about improving the first version of the weather station to connect to cellular networks and to incorporate an anemometer to measure wind speed and wind direction.
The result was a very reliable and useful way of keeping an eye on the wind. The first official Cape Kiting weather station was installed at Strand in 2018. Several improvements and upgrades later, a production-ready weather station was created.
Today Cape Kiting runs its own weather stations at spots all around the Cape, every one designed, built and maintained by us. Members check them before every session, from Langebaan to False Bay. The idea has not changed since that first station at Strand: measure the wind where people kite, and show it the moment it is measured.
