The trades are backing off for about a week. Stu got off work early today and asked if there was any place to wing. I looked at the forecasts and the reports and said Kailua was going to be the only place to get any wind.
La texted me and said she would be at her workplace for a bit - so I asked Stu if I could hitch a ride to Kailua.
I broke out the big stuff -
And it was enough to get up - and I had to do that more than a few times (and I had to work for it).
Once I was up, the light wind was more than enough to get me where I wanted to go.
I'll be honest - there were a few setups where I thought I was going to either do the walk of shame, or I was going to have a long paddle back.
I managed to avoid either of those outcomes with the help of a lot of proper pumping and just enough of a gust to get up - and almost all of those get ups were close to shore headed back to the beach (followed by a quick tight jibe).
Somewhere in the track are a few tack attempts. On one I got the board and the parawing around, but lost momentum to stay on foil. I'm going to have to practice this much more at Hickam to get the muscle memory down.
And Stu was up and going with his new to him gear (AFS wing board and the PPC M1 6.0). He even got a jibe to go all the way around.
Pretty light winds. But it is good to work on light wind skills - lest we forget.
Fun session! This was likely the last of the wind for multiple days.
PF:2/W:2/PW:18/FD:17/S:9
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