Happy Father's Day all you Fathers!
I spent a portion of my day parawinging - and I was able to have Marlon tail me with the drone.
I swapped out the AFS UHM 80cm mast for the Evolution Cedrus Surf 77.5cm mast - otherwise I used the same gear.
There were waves, but nothing critical. The tide was rising, but I still had to paddle out to deeper water. And the wind was blowing stronger than it has been and more consistent - perfect parawinging conditions!
After an initial series of unbalanced starting attempts, I finally got up. And then it just kept getting better.
I was able to stay up for long runs and I easily pulled up wind. I used the Stringfellow harness hook and it made a huge difference when the gusts came through.
Easily my best day on parawing.
In fact - this chart looks like I was winging.
Nothing but jibes today. I'm just trying to develop muscle memory for staying up, pumping and jibing - I can wait for tacking.
And there is a switch start in there somewhere.
Pretty strong winds - I'm pretty sure I would not have been able to hold on to the Ka'a 4.8. And I'm pretty sure I should have been on a smaller parawing (but I don't have a smaller one - yet).
This chart also looks like I was winging!
Prayot and Roland were out winging.
They both buzzed passed me at one point, but were mostly down in front of the cabins. I was on the other side of Fenceline.
This is the second time I managed to stay upwind - and it was the second time I did it with the Maliko 4.0 (post bar modification). I think there's something going on with the V1...
Great session!!!
W:45/FD:84/PW:10/S:4
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