Kitesoul Magazine #18 English Edition
In this issue: Triple S preview, Kitefoiling Around Sardinia, Dubai, Pohnpei - Micronesia, Fortaleza - Jericoacoara, Turks e Caicos, Foilboard Racing with Steph e Olly Bridge, ITW Mikaili Sol, Girl power, ITW Ennio Castelletti, Tutorials, Product focus. In this issue: Triple S preview, Kitefoiling Around Sardinia, Dubai, Pohnpei - Micronesia, Fortaleza - Jericoacoara, Turks e Caicos, Foilboard Racing with Steph e Olly Bridge, ITW Mikaili Sol, Girl power, ITW Ennio Castelletti, Tutorials, Product focus.
168 STORIES Ennio Castelletti, sailmaker apprentice at his dad Werther's workshop.
workshop and completes the circle, by highly combining brains to hands. In the HTS Kite Sailmaker workshop, the repair-works represent the routine. Any type of damage to kites, bladders, stretched or broken lines, worn bar grips, undone panels, loose valves, asymmetric bridles, chipped or delaminated boards. Anything can be repaired or replaced in the technical rooms of this workshop. In addition to kitesurf equipment the sailmaker workshop specialises in windsurf and surf equipment. In short the water sports universe at 360 degrees. APPRENTICESHIP AT MY DAD'S, AN HONOUR FOR ME A part from the owner, Werther Castelletti, for several years now also his son Ennio has been working here. With a dad like that, he couldn't but practice all these sports himself and he started windsurfing when he was little. At 14 years old, he discovered kitesurfing and never let it go. Today he's 20 and he's an unwearied rider. Just don't ask him to use the twintip. Give him a 9 m Religion and he will just chase waves to surf with his faithful Maquina 5'6. With a degree in surveying and determined to follow his passion, Ennio chose to work with his father to become a sailmaker master himself. Ever since he was a teen, he would hang around at the workshop, very attentive to suss out with eyes and hands such a difficult and tiring job in some ways. In fact, repairing a kite or a line requires precision, concentration and uncommon skills. There are sewing machines and needles and threads. Then there are customers, orders and delivery terms that must be managed. Each repair work is a challenge that can be mastered only with time thanks to the study and the continuous dealing with materials, stitchings, assembly, colours, graphics, glues and cuts. Ennio had to start his apprenticeship. Of course, being his father's profession for him it literally meant doing it at home, with a skilled master as a teacher, but nonetheless he had to earn himself the job day by day, making mistakes and learning from them. A long and necessary ap-
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Ennio Castelletti, sailmaker apprentice at his dad Werther's workshop.
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