Posting a few catch up days worth of activity. Wanted to get a final training run in before the race. When I got to the beach, it was blowing but light. Still doable with the 6.0m SW2 (that I borrowed from Kalani).
I bolted on the F One Eagle 890 to see the upwind ability compared to the other foils I had been using.
Marc (Hilo lifeguard) was out.
There was enough wind to make a solid run up to the end of Hau Bush - but then I could sense the wind starting to fluke out.
I made a beeline for the beach (and made it back). But then I got suckered in to making another run out - then I got stuck.
You can see the valley in the wind strength graph - and the peaks on either end were what I was using to ride out and then back in.
Nick saw what was going on and decided to avoid the misery.
Despite the waiting around and bobbing, this session put a lot of confidence in the abilities of the Eagle 890. Just a little more wind would have been nice -
W:85/F:81/S:32
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