Showing posts with label breaking stuff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label breaking stuff. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Wing Foiling Session - 12/20/2023

I've been trying to kick a cold for the past few days - I think I finally have gotten past the worst.

The wind was light - really light, but I brought out the uber light wind gear.

No.25 and the Eagle 1090 - it doesn't get much better than this.


And the now ubiquitous SW2 5.2 - definitely my workhorse as of late.


There was a lot of north in the wind (no surprise there) and it was actually pretty good strength.  I think the wind meter was 2 notches lighter than actual.  Really good stats on the mileage!


I got in some outstanding tacks on to peaking waves.  I'm going to have to start working on my inside tack (my weakest transition).

I even managed to catch a few of the bigger set waves (head high). 


Lots of wingers out today - Roland, Duke, Eddy, Prayot, myself, Kalani and Norm.

Norm pretty much kept above Fenceline, and everybody else was below Towers (I kinda drifted across both).


I'm not sure where the erroneous readings came from (from a fall???) - so the reast of the readings were hard to discern from the resulting scale.  Don't think I broke 20mph, but I was up on foil for most of the session.


Duke's giant board and Kalani's KT Dragonfly....


Which ate his SW2 6.0 wing (nose poke)


Some days you win - some days you lose.

W:124/F:107/S:58

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Wing Foiling Session - 9/21/2021

Roland and I hit Hickam this afternoon.  Perfect 5.2 wind (see graph below) and a high tide to make launching even easier than normal.  Lastly there was a south swell starting to show.  I had a great session until my last run - tried to jump, botched it and ended up jacking up the mast and the fuselage.  I don't really know how I bent these parts (no broken bones and just a scratch on my foot), but I did.


I wasn't sure at first, but this titanium core fuselage is definitely bent and the back of the mast cracked open.





Roland also had a great session until the last run.  All session he was trying out his new Naish S26 board.  He even went in to swap out his foils and adjust the mast.  On his last run, he blew out the stitches on the front wing handle - he was just trying out some tacks.

Anyways - enough about paying taxes.  I made a beeline out to Firsts and rode for over an hour.


Here is a little bit more detail on the wave riding session





I knew I was not maxing out today - only hit 17.5mph according to the watch.


If I go tomorrow, it'll be with the 95cm mast and the old 60cm fuselage.  Hopefully I'm done paying taxes....