Foil Drive Session - 2/22/2026

Way cleaner this morning compared to yesterday.  Also a tiny bit bigger.

Nice higher tide again - and no brown water (like everywhere else).

Stu, Ben, Roland, and others were out (foiling boogie guys, eFoiler, Carlo and his girlfriend, and one other - then eventually Jason - more on this in a bit)

Last night I had a clear garage and I got the modular AFS front foils all situated on the correct fuselages.  The Enduro 1100 was on a short fuselage while the Enduro 1300 was on a standard-length fuselage - I'm beginning to think that may have something to do with the takeoff speeds I had been experiencing...

I've got the Silk 850 and 1050 on the 68cm fuselages, and the Enduro 1100 and 1300 on the 65cm fuselages.

And for today I set up the Silk 850/HA38 - the surf forecast was showing a bump up so I wanted to bring this one out.

Long running waves today - 

And the Silk 850 delivered in spades!!!!  Hard carving turns converting speed to torque - so much fun!

 

The odd thing that happened was I didn't bring the Foil Drive bag and didn't have the wrench to move the mast position.  The mast position was set on the Ultra HA750 from yesterday.  I figured I'd just ride it and deal with the extra lift.  Turns out this spot was even better than the previously marked setting.

I recall the previous setting was fine - but there was this feeling of "dragging" that I couldn't shake off.

This setting from yesterday woke the Silk 850/HA38 up and it was amazing!  I even recycled on a couple of runs with a second wave behind.  I went ahead and redid the mark on the board.

I was idling back out to the outside lineup on a run when Carlo and Roland were on the same wave.  Carlo was going right and Roland was to his left heading left.  Roland made a cutback and all of a sudden they were headed right towards each other.  Roland made a last minute ditch but they both collided.  Roland's calves were hit by Carlo's board's rails.

And right after that, I was riding a wave and another FD rider was efoiling back out, headed towards me - so I made an exaggerated turn to avoid the collision and he fell off.

I went in shortly after that because I prefer riding without the efoiling crowd around.

23 rides! 

Another great session!

PF:2/W:2/PW:15/FD:17/S:8