I had planned on prone foiling today on No.43 to start getting different foil positions set - but Norm texted and said he was going to use his new Triple 7 PT Skin 7.3 parawing.
I figured why not and suggested we do a reverse run from PVs down to WP. We parked a vehicle at WP and headed over to PVs to launch. This was the conditions at WP.
Wind was definitely blowing from the WNW-NW
I setup the same equipment as the past couple of days and packed up the Triple 7 PT Skin 5.4
As we paddled out I started wondering where the wind was. But after paddling out past the shallow points at PVs, the wind line was apparent and actually pretty strong.
At the front end of the session I had to pump the PW and foil a little bit to get up - but it wasn't bad and I didn't come off foil for 40 minutes.
There were some waves breaking on the outside reef. When I tried to catch and ride those waves, the wind direction and the parawing weren't really getting along.
The more I use the Triple 7 PT Skin, the easier it is to fly at a higher performance level. It turns/banks nicely (no more catching lines on the front of the handle; and it rarely stalled on the rolls initiating the turns). It does fly differently than the BRMs and Flysurfer - I just needed to get more time on it.
It didn't seem this windy throughout the session - and realistically the wind direct probably broke the wind up more where we were riding. There were a few times I felt slightly overpowered, but again - I'm thinking the wind was not this intense as shown on the graph. This parawing has a pretty wide range.
Norm initially had a slow start, but eventually was up and riding (whew!!! No talk about selling everything after the session). He was even completing jibes consistently.
Coming in to land, I caught a nice wave and rode it all the way to the beach (it was a higher tide so I didn't ground the foil).
This was a super fun session!!!
PW:8/FD:12/S:7
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