ALLSOPP HELIKITES LTD

This is the vast majority of charter captains.

Possible reasons for not presently using traditional kites are:

• The sensitive, frustrating, adjustments needed to traditional kites to get them to fly and steer correctly.

• Traditional kites not reliably launching, especially just behind the boat superstructure.

• Traditional kites repeatedly crashing in front of customers, which is embarrassing and costly.

• Traditional kites falling into the water requiring strong, expensive, winches to drag them in.

• Traditional kites causing a massive multiple line tangles after falling in the water, taking much valuable fishing time to sort out.

• The risk of kite line tangling in the boat propellors at sea.

• Traditional kite spars breaking when winching them in after they have fallen into the water.

• The number and therefore high total cost of all the traditional kites required to cope with all wind ranges.

• The $80 daily running cost of helium and rubber balloons required, as mentioned above.

• The frustrating nature of attempting to tie and tape, slippery rubber balloons onto traditional kites.

• All the dry space and thus large, expensive, boat required to store helium cylinders and multiple traditional kites.

• The health and safety concerns around having big, heavy, helium cylinders on a boat.

How Could Professional Fishing Helikites Help?

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1. Reducing boat costs. Even the smallest open fishing boat can fly a Professional Fishing Helikite. So, charter captains do not need to own a large, expensive cabin boat to be able to offer kite fishing to customers. A couple of Fishing Helikites can therefore save hundreds of thousands of dollars of capital boat costs, interest payments, general running costs and fuel of a larger boat. A new business for only a few hundred dollars!

2. Eliminate equipment. All the multiple traditional fishing kites, helium cylinders, rubber balloons, tape and string stored in the boat can be eliminated! Only the Professional Fishing Helikite is needed. It can easily be stored for months in its protective cover inside the cabin, or outside on deck, always full of helium, thus ready for instant use. If it is not needed, then leave it be, but if kite fishing opportunities arise, it can be taken from its cover within seconds and launched instantly, for no extra cost. This is a great advantage in fishing versatility and service to customers.

3. Increase profits. The fishing Helikite enables all charter captains, with even the smallest boat, to easily, profitably and safely offer reliable kite fishing, thus widening their customer base and significantly increasing turnover and profits.

4. Catch more and larger fish. Nobody can guarantee to catch fish, this is where the supreme knowledge of professional fishermen excels. However, Fishing Helikites present bait superbly in all sea and wind conditions and they do it rapidly, so giving more fishing time, which should help to catch more fish.

5. Reduction in crew. When using multiple Fishing Helikites and fishing lines, crew will likely be needed. However, for fishing one Helikite carrying one or two fishing lines, there is no real need for any crew. The Fishing Helikite does not need to be specially set up as it is permanently full of helium and ready to go. All the flying work is done by the Helikite, which are superbly steady in flight, so the bait is very easy to keep at the surface. The captain just launches the Helikite, lets the lines out until the lure or bait is correctly positioned, then goes back to the helm to steer the boat wherever he wants, whilst himself, or his paying customer, keeps an eye on the live bait or lure. It really is that easy.

6. Fishing the downwind side of a drifting boat. Helikites can automatically fish the downwind side, whilst rods fish the upwind. This could double the chances of catching fish and satisfy customers.

7. Increase customer numbers and turnover. Many fishermen would love to experience kite fishing and will thus prefer to go with the charter captains who offer Helikite fishing.