Today's session was running the Bluewater Hawaiian Classic race in the wing foiling category. Start was at the tip of Koko head/Portlock and the finish was at the Kaimana windsock. Marlon and La came with me - and Marlon got to fly his drone to get some cool pictures (and he said a person he was flying with totally lost her drone to the ocean...).
This was just after the start.
I think Marlon took this before the start.
I didn't mention this yesterday, but there are a ton of malolo flying around - really cool to see!
I used the same gear as yesterday (5.1/1210/178/85 mast/No.25)
The winner of the race (Robert of Blue Planet Surf Shop) posted his GPS track
Compared to my route, he took a slightly more outside track and he switched tacks a lot more often.
He also had a 7.0 meter wing up - I think two things would have made a difference for me. First would have been the 6.1 wing that I had originally planned to inflate. I was swinging the wing a lot in the middle of the run. The second thing is a longer mast. The breaches I experienced would have been avoided if I had the Clydesdale 96.
The wind was slightly better than the run from yesterday.
I wasn't last, not by a wide margin so I did fine. I haven't seen the results, but if 13 started, 5 finished behind me so that makes me 8th???
I was able to get most of the way to the wind sock by wing power, and I pumped the rest - UNTIL I HIT A CORAL HEAD as a wave was sucking out. Needless to say I was boiling pissed. Oh well - I needed to fix yesterday's scrapes anyways.
This downwind stuff is really fun!
W:74/F:61/S:17
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