Comox Kite Repair

CKR is pleased to introduce Joost Buijs, our latest kite and drysuit repair specialist. Joost has been kiting for 3 years and is not new to water sports on Vancouver Island. He spent 25 years windsurfing, has over 30 years of sailing experience as well as his pilot’s license all attributes which offer him a strong background in understanding the theory behind your sports equipment. Joost’s careers included work in Whistler as a Ski Tuner and Technician and manager of the loc...al repair department at Ski Tak Hut. Now after several years working as a Red Seal RV Technician Joost has decided to pursue a career in the kite repair industry and has been learning all aspects of line, kite, and drysuit repairs. From bladder welding to installing new drysuit seals and major sewing repairs to the canopy or leading edge, Joost has been mastering the skills quickly. CKR prides itself on quality guaranteed repairs; Joost has been trained to our high standard and is a key player in maintaining our excellent reputation. With over a year of experience he is able to assess and fix your kite or drysuit to our reputable CKR standards.

New longest canopy total tear length repair at well over 8 meters of tears ... pictures tell the story ...

Please comply with our Covid Restrictions when visiting CKR : 1. Stay 2 meters apart or farther 2. Remain outside the CKR shop / garage... 3. Contact us to make an appointment before coming. Thanks, Greg & Joost

Another kite ready to fly again ...

Still doing what we do ....

Hybrid drysuit ( neoprene bottom, drysuit top ) with a jammed & broken brass dry zipper - remembered to take the before picture. Had to cut out a panel of suit fabric around the brass dry-zip to remove a big patch of reinforcing fabric glued around zipper on the inside. After picture shows the suit with a new TiZip Masterseal 10 dry zipper and a surrounding panel of new drysuit fabric.

Very mini panel repair - may not look like much, but some delicate work on this job. The kite had a canopy tear very close to the attachment of a strut, which had to be temporarily lifted to get the patch ( a mini-panel patch of exactly the same double-ripstop fabric ) on under the strut, then the canopy reinforcing replaced and perimeter stitched, and finally the strut back onto the canopy. All in a day's work.

Canada Post have now made it super easy AND affordable to ship your kite or drysuit to us for repair. Just go to a postal outlet and pick up a flat-rate shipping box ( Large for a kite, medium for a drysuit ) : https://www.canadapost.ca//send/parcels/flat-rate-box.page

CKR needs a new home soon. The current owner of the shop space we lease has sold and the new owners want us out. Anyone knowing of an available space ( 850 - 1,000 sq. feet, heated, well lit, water, bathroom ) please contact us immediately.

Man Facebroke drives me nuts !

Another Ocean Rodeo Heat drysuit converted from drysocks to latex ankle seals. We also have short TiZip zippers like the longer entry zipper. So if you have a Heat and want a relief zipper installed in your suit, we can do that too. And if you have a Soul with latex ankle seals and want it converted to drysocks, not a problem.

This was a fairly big recent repair : 461 cm total tear length, 5 tear direction changes, trailing edge tension line needed a major re-set as well.