Today was my 500th winging session (by days gone, not the number of times I've gone out in a single day - so that number should be greater)
We had some car juggling to do this afternoon between me, La and the kids - coming/going from work. So that meant I could get in an afternoon winging session at Hickam before going to pick up La and Marlon.
The wind was up and down when I arrived. I had seen Jim out, but he had come in by the time I was getting my equipment together. He had been out on his 5.0 - and said a 4.0 was doable.
I wanted to use the flatwater session to try and get recent documentation that I broke the 25mph barrier. With that I bolted on the Eagle 690. I kept the DW190 rear stabilizer on because part of today's run was to get the mast position dialed in - and I didn't want to have to wrestle with a stab that wasn't continuously contributing.
And I pumped up the North Mode Pro 5.5 - figuring that this wing can eat gusts and keep me powered (as long as I didn't come off foil).
In a nutshell - today was good fun trying to go as fast as I could.
And low and behold - I broke the 25mph barrier!!!
Quite a bit of east in the wind today. I did want to see if the Eagle 690 could ride swell - so I did go out to Firsts. The wind out there was really swirly and full of holes - and that's why you see me headed back after a short run outside.
I didn't zoom in to the track, but if you could see the points at the transitions - that's because I was throwing tacks all over the place.
If I had a bigger front foil I could have easily used the Mode Pro 4.8. And if the wind didn't have the holes it did, I would have used the Ezzy Flight 4.0 (maybe tomorrow).
You can see I was off foil for multiple stints - those were the points where the wind lightened up. Despite that, I got above 25mph!!
Now I'm going to have to go faster than 26mph!!!
W:91/FD:52/F:4/S:13
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