Very Interesting! but looks like "full pack down rescues" will become a thing of the past 
As a design feature - maybe it should come with 2 half bladders. This way the kite wont sink if you have a bladder blow-out.
Very interesting read, thanks for that. Simply put Low end seems the go with this kite. High end not so.
After long research about this option in a previous thread, the only issue I would have with having a 17 Cloud for low end riding would be the long term issue of sail stretch as someone pointed out... Hard to imagine in the long run that it would not degrade and also the fact that it sold out now and the impossibility to get a wind range indication which pissed me off a bit... and this is why I did not buy one despite it being only a 1000$
From the reviews, it sounds like you can work it OK to extend the bottom end and at the top end instead of sheeting out you are better to edge harder while you can.
This rolling up the leading edge looks like it would be fairly easy to do on the water and the kite ends up quite small.
Might make it easy enough to lie on the kite on a big board like a Sector 60 and paddle it in.
Think I might prefer to have a sandbag straddling the LE if it turned out that the kite moved around when leashed to the sandbag.
Saw one the other day at Brighton kite beach. The guy kiting on it look pretty powered up and was doing some jumps (nothing spectacular). The kite look well behaved but did have quite a bit of flutter when turning.
I had a quick chat with the guy when he came in and he said he quite liked it. In fact he said he preferred it over his normal "struted" kite.
I think I'll stick to standard but I wouldn't mind having a go one day to compare.
Interesting they certainly look the part,
I like its quick looping action I think that's pretty cool, I looked at it in more detail, they had some pretty cool footage of it in action.
The fluttering worries me, that's a big no no for what I look for in a kite especially at the top end. But that's just me.
Call me old fashioned but I'll stick with struts, I'd hate to be stuck 1.5km out in open ocean with a burst bladder with that no thanks
the kite would go great with helmet, sunnies, impact vest, gloves, booties, board leash, gps and gopro
Most of those concerns mentioned don't bother me as you can adjust launching techniques etc etc...
the flutter you cannot, except with careful trimming...and to that I say farq that, don't want to be concentrating on that crap when kiting lit.
But I do think this kite may have a place in the low wind end spectrum part of the world for sure.
