Surf seemed a little smaller today (but it really wasn't).
Tide was nice and high.
Wind was up, and seemed more steady than yesterday - but it had it's ups and downs still.
View from the start. Wind line was kinda out there.
When Norm and I pulled up, Prayot was finishing his water time - DW SUP foiling in the surf, and I think he tried his PW.
I had the same PW and gear from yesterday.
View from the finish.
My gauge to size which PW to take is whether or not there are white caps.
White caps - take the Maliko V1 4.0
No white caps - take the Ka'a 4.8 - today was a Ka'a day
Decent stats today - but if you read between the lines, you see some interesting things happening.
On the surface this looks like a great run. Lots of time up on foil with a handful of times where I had to reset and start again.
Here's where things get interesting - the peaks were at 15mph or so, and really the gusts were what got me up on foil - but the lulls were pretty deep.
And here is the real kicker - this is the speed chart. The blue is decent - up and foil and moving along at the speed you'd expect from a 1300 front foil.
You can now see the handful of starts were actually pretty long. The chart doesn't point this out as all that was happening was I was moving slowly.
Same session but now looking at the distance covered - looks more like a winging session with a speed data set. But this basically says I was covering decent amounts of ground before getting off foil.
I landed before the wind dropped off - and didn't have to swim much at all.
Norm said he wasn't able to get on foil at all. He was struggling to find the sweet spot on the board he got (just a couple of days ago).
Fun session!
W:51/FD:92/PW:18/S:4
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