Father's Day Parawinging Session

Happy Father's Day all you Fathers!

I spent a portion of my day parawinging - and I was able to have Marlon tail me with the drone.

I swapped out the AFS UHM 80cm mast for the Evolution Cedrus Surf 77.5cm mast - otherwise I used the same gear.

There were waves, but nothing critical.  The tide was rising, but I still had to paddle out to deeper water.  And the wind was blowing stronger than it has been and more consistent - perfect parawinging conditions!

After an initial series of unbalanced starting attempts, I finally got up.  And then it just kept getting better.

I was able to stay up for long runs and I easily pulled up wind.  I used the Stringfellow harness hook and it made a huge difference when the gusts came through.

Easily my best day on parawing.

In fact - this chart looks like I was winging.

Nothing but jibes today.  I'm just trying to develop muscle memory for staying up, pumping and jibing - I can wait for tacking.

And there is a switch start in there somewhere.

Pretty strong winds - I'm pretty sure I would not have been able to hold on to the Ka'a 4.8.  And I'm pretty sure I should have been on a smaller parawing (but I don't have a smaller one - yet).

This chart also looks like I was winging!

Prayot and Roland were out winging.

They both buzzed passed me at one point, but were mostly down in front of the cabins.  I was on the other side of Fenceline.

This is the second time I managed to stay upwind - and it was the second time I did it with the Maliko 4.0 (post bar modification).  I think there's something going on with the V1...

Great session!!!

W:45/FD:84/PW:10/S:4

Parawing Session - 6/11/2025

Wind was not as strong as yesterday - recipe for disaster...

But the waves were not large and the tide was high - I went ahead and setup to parawing.

I am forcing myself to do things I prefer not to - using the Dragonfly (7'/100L) and starting switch are at the top of the list.

Rounding out the equipment for today - the BRM Ka'a 4.8 (with the BRM rigid harness line), the AFS Enduro 1300 and the HA43 rear stabilizer.

I paddled out anyways because any experience is good experience.

The wind was actually ok when I was paddling out, but then it started to lull out a bit.  And it was blowing either E or even a touch SE, so that meant fully committing was heading out to PV.  I didn't have a ride back from PV, so I focused on not drifting too far down.

After a lot of waiting, I did get up on foil on a gust - but it was short lived

Fast forwarding, I did get up 3 other times.  And one of them was going switch (as I said something I do not look forward to doing, but I know I need to get better at this - get up on foil can get easier if you learn to incorporate the push from the incoming waves)

Really shitty wind - so getting up and going was definitely a series of victories.  I'll take them all - many small victories lead to large wins.

W:43/FD:84/PW:9/S:4

Garage Works - 6/5/2025

And this is perhaps the real reason I didn't go in the water today... lots of mail came in with goodies!

This is an EVA carbon bar for the BRM Maliko 4.0

First up was pulling the A lines connection point back

Then I got the bridle lines moved over.

And I also got a BRM rigid harness line.  It's pretty ingenious to use clove hitches to secure the line to the bar

And then this - Evolution Cedrus Surf mast with the Foil Drive mount holes precut into the mast base plate...

This one can pull double duty as a parawing mast also.  I need to order some more parts to use this for FD - but I'm glad to have this in the stable!

Garage Works - 1/1/2023

I got a ton done in the garage today.  I started by sanding the repairs on Dennis's wave ski.  I went ahead and got the fill coat on all the repair spots and got the nose fiberglassed.

This is ready to go back to Dennis.

I also filled the pukas on the Kujira 1440, put a Donaldson edge on the ART 999 and 400P, placed harness lines on a windsurfing boom, relocated the booms to clear some space, and then setup the electric planer to rough shape the 4'6" asymmetric prone foil board.  I got through the whole board in about 2 hours - easy when you don't have to get both halves equal.  Tomorrow I'll fine sand and maybe rout out the mast track reinforce box slot.

And I also helped Marlon cut out the arc tail on his new longboard.

Great start to the New Year!!!