The wind was forecasted to be up - so I hit Hickam after lunch.
Prayot and Zach put up wings and hit Firsts/Seconds. And they eventually came back and Prayot put up his F One Frigate 4.7 parawing, and Zach went out on his windsurfer.
I stayed inside and waited for a gust to get up - it took a while...
I ended up moving the foil forward and then I was able to get up.
At first I had some issues getting up all the way, but I got used to the narrowness of No.39
I spent most of my session pinching upwind and practicing my jibes. I'd say I was generally more successful jibing today - I would make sure I was in an active wind flow, then head downwind, start applying pressure to the back of the bar and then twist the control bar to get the parawing drop back and turn.
I still had episodes where the parawing just would not turn over - not sure but I think the swirly wind would cause this.
I think this is now my record for most distance covered (I'll have to go back and look at the entries).
The Pacific Yacht Club group started coming out for their Sunday races, so I figured I had better quit while I was ahead.
There were lots of lulls and gusts - and I would go down when the wind dropped below the lower limit of the POW 5.0
That meant a lot of practice getting up goofy foot. I was a little concerned initially with being able to do this on No.39 - but the more I used No.39 the easier everything became.
Gusts - gotta have them here on Oahu...
Prayot got a bunch of completed jibes in - probably the least cussing I've heard out of him while parawinging.
W:56/FD:119/PW:44/S:8
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