Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Wing Foiling Session - 4/25/2022

Last day with the truck (and its tremendous conveniences) before I have to drop it off at the body shop to get my self-inflicted wounds (smashed in rear quarter panel) fixed up.  Body shop guy said 2 weeks + or -.  Oh well - time to practice my "I can get it in there" routine.

Setup the same gear as the past several sessions - but swapped out the wide wing board for the narrow.  On the front foil, I wanted to try one last thing (suggestion from Prayot to use loctite on the screws) before drilling out the existing screw holes and placing in M6 helicoils.  I used the NWFB because I figured I should start getting used to winging with footstraps again as a prelude to learning to jump this season.


BLUF - the loctite made it better - only loosened up towards the end of the session, but it didn't stop the wiggling.  Time to do some surgery...


No surprise here - 1/4" back from the 1095 placement.


The waves were definitely bigger - Harris had a few waves that were overhead while he was up on foil.  I caught a few good ones, but they were as big as the ones Harris caught.  I just had some hesitancy pushing the 1210 really hard.


There was a pretty big school of halalu moving around the harbor.  I ran through it a few times and I could feel the fish bumping into the foil and the mast.  I didn't see the bigger things that chase the bait balls.

The wind was pretty hard to read - it kept swinging back and forth from the East then more North.


The black space was where the foil loosened up and the wind shifted.  And that is why I've been so fixated on correcting this deficiency.


Fun session despite the issues.

W:32/F:41/S:12

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