The Site For Maine Kite Flyers
Please use the built in navigation controls to move throughout this website.Small screens - look for the triple bar icon near top left. Larger screens - look for the word "home" and down arrow near top right. There are many pages. Or use the links below. 
The Nor'easters is an informal kite club consisting of kite flyers who like to fly in the Portland, Maine area. There are no dues, no officers, no meetings, no by-laws and not much in the way of organization. Some of us are members of Kites Over New England (KONE) and/or the American Kite Fliers Association (AKA).
We fly pretty much any kite. There are kite surfers, kite skiers, multi-line kite flyers, kite buggyers, single line flyers, KAPs and kite makers. We fly mostly at Bug Light Park in South Portland and on occasion at Fort Williams Park in Cape Elizabeth. We also fly at Pine Point Beach in Scarborough and other beaches or fields in the area. There are about 100 people on the group's mailing list and 3 to 20 of them will show up at our events.
To be added to the club's mailing list click the link below. We send out emails to announce our kiting events and we try not to fill your mailbox with too much stuff.
Use the link below to bring up an emailing window. You can request being added to or removed from the clubs email distribution list, attach and email photos, or send comments to the club. If you are curious about if any flying is going to happen on any particular day, you can send an email asking for info. The Nor'Easters does not have a Facebook presence, nor any other online presence. There is a lot of stuff on this webpage, so navigate yourself around a bit and find out what's here.
Click the picture or the title above to go to YouTube and the song "Lets Go Fly a Kite"
by Laurel Schwulst
From The New York Times, May 19, 2021
This is a unique video presentation that takes one through the process of building the bird kite you see in the picture. The speaker mentions a book titled "Heaven's Breath: A Natural History of the Wind (New York Review Books Classics)" by Lyall Watson. (Click the link to go there at Amazon). To go to the tutorial, click the underlined title above or click on the picture.