Got in a dawn patrol at Hickam. I was originally going to surf as Prayot was launching the boat. But I also brought the Foil Drive setup from yesterday - and when testing the flukey remote, it completely died (would not transmit). Ryan and Bill both offered up their spare remotes, and it seemed like a better choice to test my system to make sure it was the failing remote and not something else that was causing all the issues lately.
There was a decent south swell still pushing waves in. And it was cleaner (but still had a funky warble to it) than White Plains.
Same setup as yesterday - wanted to confirm the mast position for the Whippit was dialed in. I think it can actually go forward a notch still.
My first few rides felt off - still trying to get used to this foil. It was squirrely, and then when I tried to do a hard turn the stabilizer would slip out. And the warble in the water didn't help - I breached more than usual.
But eventually I started just going with the flow and I started to get accustomed to how this foil wanted to turn.
Early on the waves were bigger. As the tide filled in, it started to bog the waves down.
I caught eleven waves in an hour - not bad.
Tomorrow I'm going to bring the Silk 850 or the Enduro 900 and see if it was the warble or the foil that was limiting my hard turning today.
PF:8/W:3/PW:60/FD:47/S:20
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