High noon session. Tide was nice and high at 1.5' rising to 2.3'. There were some waves, but they weren't crazy big.
The wind was nuking when I got to the beach.
I decided to go a notch smaller on everything - No.34 with the UHM 80cm mast and the Enduro 900/HA40
I even went smaller on the parawing - BRM Maliko 4.0
This spot works (I guess I had tested it previously - but I don't remember...)
Things started out great! Once I was outside the surfline, I put the parawing up and off I went!
I did a few runs and jibes and everything was on the top end of their ranges.
I went down once, got back up and hit a wind dead zone. I tried to get back up but the wind was too light.
I drifted out - the wind had shifted north. I saw Prayot was also stuck in the dead zone.
Eddy, Roland and Kalani were all where I normally wing and they were fine.
I ended up paddling back towards White Plains and despite the long distance, I was making headway. It's definitely easier when the wing packs down to a small pack - Prayot was wrestling with his wing.
A gust came through and I was able to get back up. I was even making headway towards getting back above the line of death (minimum wind pressure gradient). Then the wind died on me - and all that happened was I was now even further out.
I called it, and used the parawing to get me close to the launch at Campgrounds. The walk back sucked - but it was only half the walk that Prayot had to do. He got blown down to Pavilions...
At least I got up onto foil three times - that's a winner (in this otherwise punishing session and ultra walk of shame).
W:48/FD:86/PW:12/S:4
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