Today was as far as you could have gotten away from yesterday's conditions.
It was windy - which on Foil Drive translates to choppy. But this was mega choppy.
The waves were bigger - but that made it even harder to pick rides (without blowing up).
Robby, Norm and Marvin were out - Dennis would have made it, but he lost his setup out of his truck (eek!!!).
Same lower assembly - but bolted on to No.40 today. I wanted to test out the location of the recovery/landing footstrap.
Today just down right sucked.
First off as I was motoring out in presumably deep water, I grounded on the same high spot three times. I put some good scratches on the bottom side of the front foil.
Then the whole session I was fighting water splashing in my face the whole time. All the while the wind was getting stronger.
What I should have done was head back in and setup the winging gear.
I had the HO battery - so despite motoring the whole time, I got nearly an hour out of the battery (could have gone a little longer - came in at 37%)
I did manage to get some rides in. Hard to tell what is what on the first graph.
Using distance traveled, you can more easily tell what were rides and what weren't.
17 rides (but maybe only six of them were noteworthy).
Tomorrow I may try dawn patrolling with the Foil Drive again, then get an afternoon winging session in.
W:21/FD:44/PW:1/S:3
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