The wind was blowing around pretty strong while I was driving home.
When I got to the beach, it was the opposite - it looked pretty light.
Tide was nice and high.
Surf was small, but if you were patient, chest high waves rolled in.
Same board-foil, swapped out the parawing for the BRM Maliko 5.1
The Maliko 5.1 was the perfect PW for this afternoon's wind.
Out the gate - the first turn I did was a heel side tack. I got it around, but didn't retain enough speed to sail out.
If there was wind flowing through, I tried tacking again and again. I ended up getting all my attempts around and I sailed out of three of them!!!
Tacking a parawing feels a lot different than tacking an inflatable wing. The wing "flips" as you get it through the eye of the wind. A parawing has to be twisted through the eye (pushing a rope...)
I'm now motivated to keep doing this until I can tack at will.
On a couple of waves I had retracted the parawing and rode for quite some distance. The first of these I redeployed successfully and rode back out. I got twisted up on the subsequent ones.
Norm and Roland were out on wings.
Today was super fun!!!
PF:4/W:2/PW:28/FD:23/S:9
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