Evening Foil Drive Session - 9/11/2025

Today the trades started back up - but I had a full Foil Drive battery that I needed to discharge to storage levels so I left the parawinging gear at home.

And as luck would have it the wind stayed up at wingable levels to despite the forecasts.  Because of that the waves were a little textured.

Taking a que from the last session, I bolted on the Enduro 900/HA40 to be able to glide through flat spots and catch the faster waves that would otherwise not pick me up.

Roland was out also - and he was saying the same thing - "it's wingable", "I need to discharge this battery", "it's choppy"

I really love the Enduro 900 - this foil can do anything!!!

Lots of carves - mainly going right today

16 rides in under an hour

Roland went in earlier than I did.  He felt his prop out of whack again.  And it broke off just before he landed.

I think it is the efoiling around that tears up the hub/bolts.

Tomorrow will be parawinging -

W:56/FD:115/PW:31/S:8

Foil Drive Dawn Patrol - 9/6/2025

Mixing things up a bit.  Went to Hickam to Foil Drive with Bill and Ryan.

Near calm conditions.  But the waves were on the smaller side.

No.41 with the AFS Enduro 900/HA40

First time using the FD Split Bolts.  Lowest drag solution for securing the unit and mast to the board.

Split time between Seconds (until it got crowded) and Firsts (kinda small).

16 rides (one triple!!! and multiple doubles)

Nice catching up with these guys!

W:56/FD:112/PW:31/S:7

Foil Drive Dawn Patrol - 8/31/2025

Some sets still coming through.  I got into several overhead waves (SO MUCH FUN!!!)

Wind was dead - sheet glass at times.  This is when the battery goes on forever...

I brought the Silk 850 - but in the end I just ran the Enduro 900

This was all from one HO battery!!!

The three peaks of PV -

Norm, Stu, Jen (I think that's her name - Paul Cooper's better half), one Lift eFoiler, and eventually Marvin were all out.

Hard to tell exactly how many rides I got.  I know I got left behind on a couple.  And I botched at least one takeoff.  I'm gonna call this count 20 rides.

The forecast for tomorrow is calling for similar conditions.

W:56/FD:110/PW:29/S:6

Foil Drive Dawn Patrol - 8/30/2025

Still a little lumpy - but the size jumped up.

Same gear as the previous days.

I met Brent this morning.  Unifoil P170 foiler (that is a fun foil).

Lots of long rides.  I had a few get away from me - the bigger swells travel faster.

And I wasn't prepared for the size on a couple of waves - got steep fast so I aborted.

I think I could have easily used the Silk 650 today (and I might tomorrow).

I count 11 rides in an hour and a half.

Fun session!

W:56/FD:109/PW:29/S:6

Evening Foil Drive Session - 8/29/2025

Monk seal hanging out again.

Wind would gust into the rideable range - but the lulls were mostly what was present - TRAP!

The waves did get bigger than Thursday, but with the wind it had some chop on it.

Same as the previous day.

Honestly I think I could have winged - but I didn't want to have to deal with getting the wing through the surf zone.

I was able to get waves at Fenceline and over at the Cabins.  Roland came out 40 minutes into my regular Max battery duration.

18 rides

Super fun session!

W:56/FD:108/PW:29/S:6

Evening Foil Session - 8/28/2025

Large gathering of the WP crew today - Roland, Prayot, Duke, Gary, Norm, Koa, Stu and myself.

The wind forecast called for annoying level winds - but it was actually strong enough to parawing.

Gary had just bought the 5.5 m2 BRM Kanaha that was on FBM.  I gave him a basics lesson and suggested that he try and fly it on land a lot before going out on the water.  Ground handling is never a waste of time.  It felt similar to the Maliko 5.1 -

After yesterday I didn't want to risk getting stranded again, plus I wanted to get back out on the Enduro 900 - so Foil Drive-ing was the call.

It was choppy.  With the annoying level winds, that was to be expected.

I got a bunch of really fun rides.  It took a few waves to get accustomed to the Enduro 900 again, but once I did, the ripping began again!

I count 18 rides (with a couple of missed waves).

Awesome session!

W:56/FD:107/PW:29/S:6

Garage Works - 8/27/2025

I sanded the last epoxy/carbon add to bulk up the rake on the tip.

Better now than when I got it!!!

The tip is more solid (that is one of the criticisms I have of AFS front foils - the wing tips are fragile...)

It's already been out on the water!!!

Foil Drive Dawn Patrol - 8/23/2025

Dawn patrolled PW on FD this morning.  Nice waves coming through with very little wind.

Took No.41 out for a spin.  Also tested out the ABS plastic sheeting to cover the trench - it worked well.

Dennis, Grant and Eddy were out on FDs.  Prayot, Andrew, Noel and Mark were out on SUP foils.  There were others on prone - and tons of surfers. 

I got multiple really long rides today -

15 rides - with one false start (wave outran me at start up).

Eddy was taking video and posted to the WhatsApp group.

Fun session!!!

W:56/FD:105/PW:26/S:6

Foil Drive - Parawing Augmented Session - 8/19/2025

Following Norm's lead, today I brought out the Foil Drive, and brought along a parawing.

Wind was way up and down.  When it was up - it was easily parawingable.  When it was down it was almost glassy.

Super high tide made for easy launch and recovery.

No.40 with the standard Foil Drive setup.

And in the stash pouch is the BRM Ka'a 3.6 (first outing)

I had intended to take out the Ka'a 4.8 but I grabbed the wrong bag

In the end it didn't really matter.  My first wave I caught I reached in and deployed the parawing and it opened.  I was going along for a little bit and then lost power in the wing and came off foil.

That's when I noticed I was on a smaller parawing.

I did the same thing multiple times after, but they all got progressively worse

I did ride some waves without messing with the PW, and those were really fun.

16 rides - can't complain about that.

Koa was out also - and there was another Foil Drive-r guy who we haven't met before.

Good introduction session for the FD-PW combo.

W:56/FD:104/PW:24/S:6