Parawing Session - 10/25/2025

I stalled a bit today on going out.  First I picked up a rear stabilizer for a good deal (F One DW 135 XS).  Then I did a bunch of laundry.  And finally I packed up for the beach.

Whitecaps everywhere!!!  This is what I thought it was going to be like yesterday afternoon.  It was likely similar to this, but also at the same time of day (while I was at work).

Regardless, when I got to the beach the debate in my head was Maliko 2.9, or Ka'a 3.6 - I think this is the windiest session I've had on parawing to date!!!

No.34, the BRM Ka'a 3.6 and the AFS Enduro 1300/HA43 were the calls for the day!

Roland launched probably 30 minutes behind me.

The Ka'a 3.6 was the right call.  And it was powered perfectly to keep me upwind.  That said there were two stints where the wind dropped and I ended up downwind in front of the last cabins.  With the conditions today, it was a waiting game to get strong gusts funneling through again.

The highlight of the session was stowing the Ka'a and riding rising swell for damn near the whole length from the outer breaks all the way inside in front of the first cabins!!!

I got two like this and it was the best feeling to ride these waves as if I was prone foiling with nothing to drag me back (windage was non-existent).  This upcoming summer is going to be epic if we get wind and swell to line up!!!!

I really like how the BRM Ka'a 3.6 works - it's just as advertised.

Can go upwind well (to hold your line, not necessarily to plow upwind long distance), stows to nothing and quickly, turns on a dime, and has plenty of power (in the upper end of its range).

Based on today's conditions and the correlating performance of the Ka'a 3.6, I'd need the wind to be sheering off the tops of the waves in order to have enough wind to use the Maliko V1 2.9

This was the peak of this wind event.  There will be some wind lingering around through to this coming Friday, but it won't be like today.

This was probably my best parawing session yet!!!

W:57/FD:127/PW:59/S:8