Wing Foiling Session - 1/1/2025

After running errands with La and Noe I noticed the wind was up, I got home, loaded up the truck and hit the beach to get in a wing session.

The tide was low.  The waves were small (but bigger than this morning).  And the wind was up and down.

I setup the same gear as yesterday - and added a single front foot strap (port side) so I could lift the board with my foot when headed in.

And I paddled out -

Prayot was on his way in.  Roland had just paddled out ahead of me.  Kalani and Eddy were both outside and riding.

I had a heck of a time getting to where there was enough wind to get me up.  The AFS Enduro foils need more wind to get going - with a good gust, a couple of slow long pulls on the wing, and a proper coaxing of the foil and you get up pretty quick.  As long as you have that good gust -

You can see how far I made it out before I picked up that gust (green circle).

After that it was almost one long single ride.  The wind did have holes in it and on one of them I ran out of juice and came down.  With the marginal conditions today I really should have setup the KT Dragonfly and the AFS Enduro 1300 - but the fact that I got the performance I had from No.39 and the AFS Enduro 900 - that's a testament to the glide and power of the 900.  I would have used the F One Eagle 1090/DW210 if Mark hadn't loaned me his AFS setup.  

There was wind blowing - but it didn't have guts in it (little power for the perceived amount of movement).  It also felt more easterly than the chart above shows.

Pretty close correlation between the two again.

Note the top speed.  This is something that I'm noticing about the AFS Enduro foils - the top speed is not as high as you would think based on the performance.  You feel like you are going faster - I would have thought I was much closer to 20mph.

Based on the F One foils I already have, and the faster top speeds from them, I think I am going to skip out on the AFS Enduro foils for now (and buy Marvin's AFS Silk 850 from him - that foil is the best wave carving foil I have ever used).

If the wind comes up tomorrow and the waves are as small as they were today, I'm going to bring out the Dragonfly and the parawing.

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