The wind was up again today - but there was an upper layer of clouds that gave the impression of a trap.
Kalani was at the beach when I parked and Koa was already winging.
I popped up the Flysurfer POW 4.0 to see how the wind was blowing - nicely powering this PW.
The waves were more organized today and the tide was rising
With the conditions of yesterday making me feel like I could size down, I figured I should see if the Enduro 1100/HA40 on No.40 would deliver the goods
Short answer - yup!!!
Long answer -
Initially I was setting dumpster fires...
I tried to deploy the parawing but it had a twist, and that lead to getting pulled into the wave breaking zone, which lead to the parawing sinking and getting wrapped around the foil.
I got my way out of all that after 10 minutes.
After that, I had a fantastic session.
Plenty of upwind to ride waves -
The Enduro 1100/HA40 was faster than the Enduro 1300/HA43 (duh) and that allowed me to stay ahead of the building swell.
I had several head to overhead rides, and multiple stow and go runs - long ones!
No breaching today - I used the AFS UHM 85cm mast.
The I drifted into the dead zone and got stuck on the struggle bus for quite some time.
I kept seeing "gusts" just ahead of me - but they weren't strong enough to pull the 4.0
I stashed the parawing and started paddling back up (straight blue line heading east)
I did eventually got back up and rode in.
Even though I had to paddle back, I technically rode back in and the first half of the session was that good... all making this a really good session!!!
I really liked how the Flysurfer jibes - it isn't as quick as the BRMs, and not as direct, but the slightly slower response actually fits my pace better. And it makes riding more relaxed.
It probably did help that today's conditions were way better than yesterday.
I think I may use today's setup more frequently.
PF:2/W:2/PW:15/FD:15/S:8
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