Hit Kailua this morning - I specifically wanted to see if the wind was shifting direction over here (like it has been on the south shore)
5 meter wind - chest high waves at Jump City
It's always a good sign when the Iwa are flying
No.34 with the AFS 80cm UHM mast, Enduro 1100/HA40 powered by the BRM S3 5.3
Speaking of BRM - demo day at Kailua.
Good, strong wind coming from mostly one direction.
I made 90% of my jibes and when I was down, getting up was not difficult.
I tried a few tacks, but it seems like I need to work on keeping the board under me so I don't get stripped off at the apex.
There were some waves coming through, but they were on the smaller side. I did get a few long retracted rides.
I tried to be more methodical with getting the parawing put together so I could ride without it tangling on me, and that seemed to help with the redeploy.
You can see the rides I came out of powered, and the ones where I dropped off foil (blue tails).
This wind was just on the other side of perfectly powered. I think if I had a 4.7, that would have been enough to get up, and wouldn't have needed to be depowered so much while riding.
I think during the gusts the 4.2 would have worked nicely, but getting up would have been harder.
It's been a while since I've had a speed chart like this (way more up than down, and when down short recovery time).
Fun session!!!
PF:9/W:3/PW:84/FD:55/S:20
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