Parawing Session - 10/24/2025

Wind was strange and not aligned to the forecast yesterday - strong gusts followed by periods of calm.  And the other spots were not the same - pretty much nuking.

Same gear as Thursday's session.

This picture is probably the best shot of looking at the rocker profile on this board.

My watch stopped recording for an unknown period of time - so this data set isn't exactly correct (and I don't know by how much).  It's probably close with all the ups and downs that were present while I was out.

Roland came out around 4

With the wind the way it was, I think I should have put up the Flysurfer POW 4.0 - but I didn't want to get overpowered during the gust runs.  Overall this session was more practice for non-optimal condition takeoffs, and more practice being underpowered.

There were some waves to ride and I took several to just before the lineup where the surfers were trying to catch waves.  On a lower tide I prefer not to go in this far, but the conditions allowed.

What made it even harder was the swirly wind direction - pretty hard to figure out how to line up to get power to takeoff.

It was really weird that the wind got goofy when it was forecasted to be borderline nuking.

W:57/FD:127/PW:58/S:8

Parawing Session - 10/23/2025

More wind again today - but not as strong as yesterday.

Same gear as yesterday, but swapped out the Ka'a 3.6 for the Maliko 4.0

Gratuitous board photo -

Today's session was pretty fun.  Lots of waves, wind that was mostly filled in, and a really light crowd - I pretty got to surf whatever wave I wanted.

Lots of north in the wind.  Which actually made the surf really clean.  I got tempted and threw a heelside tack onto a wave - didn't make it.

Roland came out after I had been in the water for about 40 minutes.  His line would take him closer to the 2 cabins and back out in front of the first lifeguard tower.  I didn't want to get stuck in that swirly wind zone so I was more in front of the Wai Kai pool back towards Fenceline.

Not all the downs were light wind.  One was a big turtle surfacing near me - I didn't want to hit it and ended up losing it.

And for the record - this session tied winging and parawinging sessions.  On this trajectory, I'll end up with parawinging doubling the winging sessions.

W:57/FD:127/PW:57/S:8

Parawing Session - 10/22/2025

This afternoon had some strong Trades blowing!!!

When I first showed up, the whitecaps were everywhere!  But as my luck would have it, the wind did back off a bit as I was swimming out.

The waves were on the small side and the tide was going up to the lower high tide of the day to 1.0'

Prayot was out on his Ozone Pocket Rocket 4.3 and Duke was out with his Ensis 4.2 - they both said their arms were being pulled out of their sockets.

Board, foils and mast were the same as yesterday - I switched out the BRM Ka'a 4.8 down to the Ka'a 3.6

This was the second time I had this parawing out on the water, and this was it's first really session (the first time was by mistake and it was to trying using the wing in conjunction with the Foil Drive)

I absolutely love the BRM Ka'a 3.6!!!  I was able to hold my line throughout the entire session.  You really just need a lot of wind for these parawings - upper end of its range.

And the Ka'a parawings are so easy to retract - super short bridle lines.

These turn so easily also - I made every jibe today.

And I even made a toe-side tack and rode out of it (but just ran into a light wind patch).

I got two retracts and two subsequent re-launches.  One of them was a nice long wave and I re-launched after jibing around Prayot.

Really strong wind!  Looks to be 19 to 25 (30) mph 

Below 20mph, the Ka'a 3.6 would lift my fat ass out of the water - that's the black areas in the graph below.  But above 20, this wing is so good to fly!

Roland showed up around 4:30 - so the parawingers actually outnumbered the wingers today.

W:57/FD:127/PW:56/S:8

Parawing Session - 10/21/2025

I hit the beach earlier in the afternoon today.  There was wind - but not as strong as I thought it would be.

Decent tide

Minimal waves.

Definitely a parawing day.

Took the fully stickered up No.42 out.  Same foil/mast.  And for power based on the wind, I brought out the BRM Ka'a 4.8

Prayot brought out the F One Frigate 4.7 - he wanted to put up the Ozone Pocket Rocket 4.3 (but I gave him a sideways look and he took the bigger wing)

The wind was just enough to get me going on the Ka'a 4.8 - so I got to practice pumping up with No.42

This board (with it's square rails) has a ton of roll stability.  And it's length gives it plenty of pitch stability.  This combination makes pumping the board up on to foil a lot easier than the KT Dragonfly.

For the beginning of the session I was able to hold my line and stay upwind.  As the session went on, there was some slackening and that's when the Ka'a drifts downwind.

With a second gust series, I was able to hold this new line and not drift down too far.

And last was a rain squall that came bulldozing through.  That pushed me down past the Cabins and I never had a chance to get back upwind under pw power.

That spike in wind speed at 3pm - was very challenging on the Ka'a 4.8 - but what can you do...

Looks 50-50 up/down

After I called it quits on the PW, after paddling back a considerable distance, I was in the cabins break and I ended up catching a wave prone foiling No.42 - it wasn't pretty, but it counts.

Hopefully the wind starts to ramp up some more - 

W:57/FD:127/PW:55/S:8

Garage Works - 10/20/2025

This was how the conditions looked at the beach on my way home...

I figured I should rest today and take care of some things in the garage.

Knowing the wind is going to get up into the nuking range later this week, I first rigged the stoppers onto the BRM Maliko parawings.  I eventually figured out it was best to just place the stopper on the same loop that holds the bridle lines.  I got all three parawings completed and function checked.

Next, I made adjustments to the harness/leash belt.  I adjusted to locations of the stopper clips and the leash attachment point.

Then I slightly lengthened the harness hook line and placed some heat shrink over the lower part of the line.

I had contemplated placing the hook and slider onto my T9 harness (since I really haven't been winging lately) - but that webbing belt is 1.5" and the slider is a 2"

After that I cooked dinner and set about placing the stickers on No.42.  I also placed a few more pieces of deck pad 

Starboard side -so when I'm taking off or coming down off foil, I have a little more grip to control the board.

Port side

And lastly, I added some more epoxy to the points on the mast-adapter interface that had shown some corrosion. 

I'll try to get an M6 helicoil installation tool in the next day or so - that's pretty much all that's left to do on this repair.

Tomorrow the wind should be better than today - and that theme should continue throughout the week!

Garage Works - 10/19/2025

I got a bunch of work done on this mast repair.

I measured the center points of the holes - three times.

Then I drilled pilot holes and then a series of progressively larger holes.

Checked the hole alignment before enlarging the holes 

Then all three holes were tapped to fit an M6 helicoil

Then a fit check to make sure the alignment is still good.

The M6 helicoil installation tool I have is broken - so I stopped at this point.

I'll grab another tool and get this repair completed.  

Parawing Session - 10/19/2025

Got in a parawing session this afternoon.  Kalani also went and used a bunch of new to him equipment - a Code 1075R/135 tail and the North Mode Pro 5.5 he got from me.

Arvin was launching when we got there, and he said Matt had just left.

There was wind - but it wasn't as strong as yesterday.

I brought the same gear I used yesterday afternoon.  I wanted a simple session - just riding and maybe some tacking practice.

Besides being lighter, the wind was also up and down - also much more than yesterday.

Lots of blue where I was waiting for gusts - lots of red when I was up and riding.

After drifting downwind during a series of lulls, I was able to get up and I wanted to make up a bunch of lost ground - I headed out to the tip of the runway, caught a small wave and rode it back.

Kalani saw I had headed out and he made his way out also - but I passed him heading back in and I gave him the look of "it ain't worth it"

The wind stayed up long enough for me to get back inside (no paddling for me today!)

I tried a couple of tacks on the inside.  I got one around - I may actually try to work the mechanics of the tacks out on a skateboard...

Kalani was mostly up on foil - looks like he just needed a bigger foil!!!

I think I would have been up on foil more if I had put up the BRM Maliko 5.1

Ups and downs that largely followed the gusts.

The forecast is calling for wind for the foreseeable future - my parawinging count should pull ahead of the winging count this week.

W:57/FD:127/PW:54/S:8

Parawing Session - 10/18/2025

And I got a second session in over at Hickam.

Prayot and Norm were there - so three parawings out at once.

I swapped out No.42 for No.34

I brought the Flysurfer POW 4.0 out again.

Prayot did a good job with this ding repair - I like the tiger stripes.

The wind was still pretty strong.  But - Hickam has ups and downs and swirls - it stayed true to form.

This was a good session.

I got my bearings with the wind direction and speed, then I headed out to Firsts.  The waves were small - but I made sure to get out to Firsts proper.

Then I headed over to Seconds and surfed a couple of waves there.

So I can claim to be the first to parawing White Plains, Pavilions, Firsts and Seconds.

Good thing I went - because Prayot followed.  So he is the second to parawing Firsts and Seconds.

I headed back to the inside and practiced more jibes.  The POW 4.0 is definitely a more nimble version of the POW 5.0 - they definitely have the same DNA - jibes need to be banked.  The 4.0 is easier to turn - but it may be that the 5.0 is used in lighter wind and whether there is wind in it or not makes that difference.

I attempted a couple of tacks on the inside.  I got around on both of them - the last one was actually cleanly executed.

I tried once on the outside and it was ugly.

This parawing feels best at 15 to 22 mph.

The wind started to turn more north and it started to slacken so I figured it was time to wind down the session.

I did line up speed runs - probably took the Enduro 1300 close to its upper limit.

Another great session!!!

W:57/FD:127/PW:53/S:8