This afternoon had some strong Trades blowing!!!
When I first showed up, the whitecaps were everywhere! But as my luck would have it, the wind did back off a bit as I was swimming out.
The waves were on the small side and the tide was going up to the lower high tide of the day to 1.0'
Prayot was out on his Ozone Pocket Rocket 4.3 and Duke was out with his Ensis 4.2 - they both said their arms were being pulled out of their sockets.
Board, foils and mast were the same as yesterday - I switched out the BRM Ka'a 4.8 down to the Ka'a 3.6
This was the second time I had this parawing out on the water, and this was it's first really session (the first time was by mistake and it was to trying using the wing in conjunction with the Foil Drive)
I absolutely love the BRM Ka'a 3.6!!! I was able to hold my line throughout the entire session. You really just need a lot of wind for these parawings - upper end of its range.
And the Ka'a parawings are so easy to retract - super short bridle lines.
These turn so easily also - I made every jibe today.
And I even made a toe-side tack and rode out of it (but just ran into a light wind patch).
I got two retracts and two subsequent re-launches. One of them was a nice long wave and I re-launched after jibing around Prayot.
Really strong wind! Looks to be 19 to 25 (30) mph
Below 20mph, the Ka'a 3.6 would lift my fat ass out of the water - that's the black areas in the graph below. But above 20, this wing is so good to fly!
Roland showed up around 4:30 - so the parawingers actually outnumbered the wingers today.
W:57/FD:127/PW:56/S:8
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