Foil Drive Dawn Patrol - 1/19/2026

Lighter winds, higher tide, (slightly) bigger waves.

Same as yesterday - wanted to see if the performance is the same.

I was the only one out for a bit - then lots of people were out Foil Drive-ing - Dennis, Kalani, Carlo, Carlo's girlfriend (who foils better than Carlo), Noel, Ben and Roland.

Noel was getting up on waves - by the end of the session it was apparent that he needed to move the foil forward in the tracks to get the appropriate lift.

The waves were slightly bigger than yesterday, but the tide was higher.  Yesterday there were peaks to be hacked - today the peaks were a bit suppressed (higher tide).

Rides were still fun with some taller drops.

28 rides!!!  I did have the HO battery today where I had the normal Max battery yesterday.

PW:5/FD:7/S:4

Foil Drive Dawn Patrol - 1/18/2026

Happy Birthday Marlon!!!

We hit WP for a dawn patrol on foil.

Marlon took his prone setup and the Kujira 1095

I took the same setup as yesterday with one exception -

I swapped the mast for the Evolution Cedrus Surf 77.5 and the Zip Pod

This setup was so clean and efficient in the water - 

The real test for me was efoiling back out after riding a wave - really smooth and no drag.  Efoiling was the easiest it has ever been for me.

And it didn't shift once.  I'll use it one more time and then break down the whole setup again to inspect the parts.

And riding today was focused on the "section ahead" - don't worry about how long the ride will be, just what is immediately in front of you.

I got some serious roundhouse turns in - look at the curves in the tracks -

Despite the small waves - 20 rides

Gonna run this again tomorrow morning.

PW:5/FD:6/S:4

Foil Drive Dawn Patrol - 1/17/2026

Dawn patrolled with the Foil Drive today - 

Nice high tide, light offshore (but COLD) wind, but small waves

On the drive in, the truck's thermometer read 55 degrees - BRRRRRR!!!!

I wore a long sleeved shortie and I was still cold.

I used No.39 today to get up on foil faster - otherwise everything was the same as usual.

The rides in general were shorter today.  Taking what I've learned from surfing shortboard, focus on what is in front of you and you'll have a great time (don't worry about what is beyond that).

I actually had some great turns on pop up sections!

What did make it hard to focus was the cold air temps.

Stu, Andrew, Noel (on prone foil drive), Kalani, Dennis and Ben were all out.

19 rides

There was some wind in the wingable range - which made it even colder.

And a couple of whales were breeching - pretty cool!

PW:5/FD:5/S:4