Evening Session - 2/1/2024

Caught an afternoon session - 

Waves were intermittent - but belly high when they came.  I think the West swell is finally passing us.  The weather was pretty wet and cold.  I actually had a hard time seeing because there was no contrast between the sky and the ocean.

At least the weather kept the crowd at bay -

I brought the Progression 170/flex rear stab setup on the 68cm Project Cedrus mast (classic).  For the board, I broke out No.31

No.31 is probably the smallest I would go when prone foiling.  I'm estimating this board to be about 35 liters - so pretty much my shortboard volume.

I botched the first few rides - which I always do when changing back to prone from either surfing, Foil Drive prone foiling, winging, etc.  It didn't help that I was on a different board also - but after those first few everything was coming together again.

I was able to get a few triples, and a ton of good carves in.

I actually think No.31 may be a good Foil Drive Max board.  Will have to cycle this in once the FDM is in hand.

I did move the mast up twice from the starting point (white dots).  The original placement was definitely too far back because I had to coax the board up.  This position felt a lot better, but I'll still need to experiment with it.  I thought I moved the boxes up on this board when I did the second install...

Tomorrow the trades return.  It'll be a bit northerly at first, but by Sunday it'll be mostly from the East.  Debating if I want to do an after work session at Hickam, or beat feet home and hit WPB... low tide... hmmmmm.

W:8/FD:10/F:4/S:5

Evening Session - 3/24/2023

The surf report called for similar conditions to the past couple of days.  I really didn't believe the report so I brought out 2 foil setups.  I definitely am looking for more of the same surfy feeling that the Vyper 170 has been delivering, but I also didn't want to have to wait for the bigger set waves and for that I thought the Eagle 1090 would be the right foil.

Well - with the bigger tide, the same swell was a little less energetic - so I bolted on the Eagle 1090.  I had also wanted to change more things up so I used the 75cm Project Cedrus mast.

What another fun setup!  I took the DW210 off and used the KD 15" - and it was spectacular!  I am constantly amazed at how well this foil glides and at the same time it can carve hard turns on fast moving sections.  

I caught multiple waves and most were at least doubles (if not triples).

These past few days have been incredibly fun!

W:28/F:20/S:17

Dawn Patrol - 3/4/2023

I thought the waves this morning were going to be similar to yesterday evening.  I was wrong - the set waves were probably just shy of head high.

Marlon was stoked and grabbed a bunch of good ones.

At home before driving to the beach, I swapped out the ART999 for the 1099 and setup the 68cm mast thinking I'd get better carry on the waist high swell.  Well - on the head high waves, I was barely making the drop.  I actually contemplated going back home and grabbing a shortboard.

I figured I was here already and just sucked it up.  I did pick up a handful - and those were either really long rides or triple dips.

The first days back either surfing or prone foiling after a long run of wing foiling are usually work getting back into paddling shape.  It is all good!!!

W:25/F:13/S:13

Dawn Patrol - 1/1/2022

Dawn patrolled this first day of 2022.  I finished the Takuma mast modifications (added epoxy yesterday while working on the NWFB and sanded this morning) - so I rigged up the 75cm with the 1210.

Winds were straight onshore.  The tide was supposed to be a dropping high at 1.6', but oddly enough I hit bottom twice.  There were waves pulling through - but I think it was pretty much wind swell.  I caught several really fun ones - two for ones and even a triple dip mixed in there.  Besides the two bottom groundings, I also had the foil come back at me on a wipeout and it bite me in the head and back (next post).

I forgot about the nose down attitude this setup produced.  I couldn't ride with reckless abandon because of that - I meant to add a shim under the front of the base plate.  Next time. 

The weather changed pretty quickly - good, bad, super windy, and really choppy.  Challenging conditions for sure, but glad to have gotten a session in to open 2022.