Nick and I did a winging dawn patrol at Kailua. When we pulled up, there was nuking winds....
That turned out to be a really big squall. Lots of rain clouds passed through at the same time. We had set up the small wings - but after the wind dropped we pumped up the bigger wings - for me the SW2 4.7, while Nick pumped up his Cab Mantis 6.0
I used the Eagle 890 but swapped out the rear stabilizer with the monobloc DW190 that I got from Jeff. The mast was positioned pretty much where the SK8 950 was.
The winds were much better than yesterday and so were the waves.
Lots of wave riding - more straight south instead of angling up to stay pointed at the launch - but that was fine since there was plenty of wind.
You can see the squall at 8am, and the subsequent drop to nothing. We were out for a little over an hour and a half - wanted to save some energy for the afternoon session.
I didn't really try to break a speed record - just wanted to be out and have fun without working too hard for it. Its easy when the gear lines up with the conditions.
W:25/FD:15/F:4/S:8
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