Built for the water ahead
Carve Kite 2025
The Carve is a powerful, reactive and controllable kite, ideal for carving up a wave face, tucking into a barrel or boosting strapless tricks. Engineered with a stable, lower aspect ratio design for fast pivot turns and excellent drift, the Carve has an extremely direct feel in both bar pressure and steering initiation. Intuitive control—especially when the kite's not visible on a big bottom turn, cutback, or barrel—means you can focus 100% on the surf. The Carve has a longer, progressive travel, so it feels smooth and responsive throughout the full depower range and is reactive to the very end when you sheet out. For 2025, we’ve refined the 2025 Carve bridling for increased depower and responsive feather-light steering, so the Carve feels lighter, faster turning and more agile. You’ll also discover a cleaner, more aerodynamic canopy profile, with lighter bar pressure for more stable efficient drifting and less pull on the wave face. The improved overall balance with more sweep in the tips enhances drift, so when you're surfing, it glides down the line, waiting for your bar input. The wingtips are light, and the smooth curve and shape draft back ensures balance. A thinner LE diameter reduces the pulling power, while added sweep enables effortless roll to relaunch. The 2025 Carve is smoother, more stable and manageable in gusty conditions. The Carve flies fast upwind and experienced riders will benefit from the kite's impressive power and efficiency. Intermediate riders will find it offers a smoother, more user-friendly ride. Freeride and Strapless Freestylers will love the light reactive steering, longer bar stroke, improved hangtime and catch for rotations and softer landings.
Includes: Kite, Kite Bag, Repair Kit, Sand Bag
- Refined bridling for more direct fingertip steering
- Stable clean profile
- Fast responsive power steering and delivery
- Critical relaunching
- Lofty hangtime and catch
- Light surf-tough construction
- Light handling with early initiation
- Progressive travel through full depower range
- Smooth and intuitive power delivery
- Includes Premium Kite Bag made from recycled materials
Selected color and size
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Technology
What makes it work.
Longer Travel for improved drift and smoother response
Maintain complete drift while sheeted in or out, riding a down-the-line or onshore wave.
Smooth power delivery
For 2025 we’ve reduced the leading-edge diameter and smoothed out the profiles to provide a smoother power delivery.
N-Dure 2 lightweight durable reinforcement
Removing any unnecessary excess weight helps the kite drift better, without compromising its structural integrity.
Improved wind range with more low-end efficiency
The Carve’s low aspect ratio design creates more apparent wind, providing excellent stability and wind.
Lightweight bladders in ALL sizes
The lighter the kite, the faster the steering and the more lift it creates.
Segmented curve arc with direct pivot steering
The Carve has a segmented curve arc design with lighter wingtips. We’ve maintained the smoother curve and shape draft back, so the balance is in the centre of the profile.
Highest quality low-drag, no-pulley bridle lines
All North bridle lines are pre-loaded and measured before cutting to improve accuracy and consistency. This results in reduced shrinkage, reduced elongation and improved longevity. Removing ALL pulleys from the bridle improves safety and gives the kite direct and precise handling. The end result is lower drag, more accuracy and a more direct feeling.
Refined aerodynamic profile transition panels
The profile transition panels ensure that as the leading edge expands, tension from the elongation doesn't migrate into the canopy and a precise lateral profile shape is maintained as close to the leading edge as possible.
Fast-launching swept leading edge design
Allows more area in the centre of the kite for efficiency and makes the kite easy to roll off the water during critical relaunch in the surf.
DuraLite seam protection
Lightweight reinforcement to protect from chafing and abrasion along the struts to the leading edge. Thin foam padding is inserted underneath to form a lightweight durable buffer which lifts the kite slightly off rough surfaces and protects the stitching along the struts and leading-edge seams.
Specifications
Wind range.
| Size | Wind Range (knots) |
|---|---|
| 5 | 22-36 |
| 6 | 20-34 |
| 7 | 18-32 |
| 8 | 16-30 |
| 9 | 14-28 |
| 10 | 12-26 |
| 11 | 10-22 |
| 12 | 9-20 |
Materials
Built from.
- N-HTRS High Performance high tenacity ripstop canopy
- N-Dure2 Dacron Airframe and Reinforcement
- DuraLite Seam Protectors
- Airlite Lightweight Bladders all sizes
Documentation