Decent wind this afternoon. Super high tide. Energetic waves.
Decided to parawing today.
No.34 with the 85cm AFS UHM mast, AFS Enduro 1300 and HA43 rear stabilizer.
The wind strength was good when it was good, but when it was down I had to sit and wait. I took out the Maliko 5.1 to maximize the up on foil time.
This setup is so good!!!
It was a full house today. Roland and eventually Prayot were out on wing. Zach was on his windsurfing rig. Koa was out prone. And Robby was out on Foil Drive.
I think this is my record for distance traveled on parawing.
And I was able to hold my line - I didn't have to paddle back once.
I am leaning towards the reason being the Maliko v1 parawings. But it might be the wind speed - and if I take the Ka'a out its probably actually not strong enough for me to pull back up wind.
I'm going to pay closer attention to this.
When Greg Drexler discusses the V2 parawing range, he says the difference in the Kanaha and the Ka'a are pretty small. Both being able to haul upwind and both being able to collapse down to very small packages.
I also focused on jibing while still hooked in. Almost all of those attempts were successful (but I ate it a few times).
But perhaps the most significant thing today was my first tack!!!
Heelside and on to an incoming wave (is there any other way???). I'm going to emphasize practicing this.
I could hold the 5.1 down today - but there were several periods where I could have been using a smaller parawing (but then I'd have more issue getting up on foil - damned if you do, damned if you don't)
This on foil time chart is looking more and more like my winging sessions -
Super fun session today!!!
W:56/FD:104/PW:25/S:6
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