I was on fire today - got a lot done. Started by hitting the barber shop so Marlon and I could get cleaned up. Then picked up some groceries so I can make dinners later this week. Came home and made mushroom-onion-spinach omelets. Keeping an eye on the wind it looked like the trades were filling in again. I shifted to teaching La and Noe how to tow (but the ball on the hitch was too big so no Laser sailing for Noe today...). I wet sanded the GL210, GL180 and the 12" Go Foil Pedestal rear stabilizer through 320-500-1000-1500. After all that, I loaded up the truck with the wingfoiling board, the tall Go Foil mast with Dennis's GL240, and the Duotone Echo 6m. I dropped La off at RBM so she could go sailing with her friends and I made it to Hickam Harbor by 1:30pm. The wind was blowing from the ENE but it was light. Arvin was there and he was setting up for a paddle. I figured I needed to test the GL240 so I headed out.
I was able to get up earlier with the bigger wing - not a surprise - but I did sense I was going slower than I would with the GL210. The died back for about 5 minutes and when I came back up, it had shifted to the NNE-NE. I was able to get back up on foil and made some more runs, but then the wind died again. I actually started to paddle in but then it picked back up more from the NNE. I got in a few more runs and worked my way back up wind and made it back to the launching point. I got in 4.91nm and got to 12.8kts. I couldn't stick a turn today - might be because I was on a new (and bigger) front wing (same as previous wing swaps). The day didn't end here - I got home and mowed the lawn, and then I routed out the fin block area on the board I got asked to fix (next post)
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