FWIW I am currently looking at fitting a pelican striker to my Stealth. I was already playing around with it when this thread came up!

Background is this: I got a new kite from Grant Piggott that is the same as Scooby's and Mark_P's. It has a much longer luff than my other kites and although it fits the new style Stealths, it won't fit on mine. The pole needs to be lowered to where it is on the newer Stealths and they use tangs fitted low down on the inside of each bow. Mine are on top of the already higher bow of the old style Stealth. As a result, although I can get the pole down low, the steadying wires are now almost horizontal and doing nothing to resist upward deflection of the pole tip. On shore I can get the spin set up beautifully with a nice tight luff but as soon as we're on the water the pole prebend turns into an S-bend!!

I looked at the possibility of fitting lower take off points for the pole wires and that is what will happen when I remodel the bows this winter (if I keep the boat). In the meantime however, I needed a 'quick and dirty' solution and the obvious one was a striker arrangement which is exactly what I was working on when this thread started.......