5m Wingfoil Beats 4.7m Windfoil

I usually like windfoiling more than wingfoiling when there’s a gusty north wind.

Coming back in the NE wind on the windfoil

Today there was super gusty north east wind so I decided to head out first on the wing foil. Today was the coldest day this fall. 10°C air and 15°C water. I took the 5m Duotone Slick and I easily got downwind to the wind line and started foiling. 

There were lots of lulls in the wind, but I did manage to plan through tons of jibes. Did some toeside tacks. Some nice carving 360s. And even managed to try a few to side heelside tacks which I didn’t complete or foil through.

Wingfoil GPS trail

Some carving downwind 360s

Some good time up on the foil despite the lulls

After a solid 10K of that I decided to try wind foiling. I took the wing back up from the point and swapped with the 4.7 Duke sail. It was an apples to apples comparison as I kept the exact same Fanatic Sky WSUP board with the 2000 cm² foil underneath. 

My windfoil GPS trail

Only got up on the windfoil very briefly

Way more fun on the wingfoil today

I could barely get going my first two attempts during gusts were super wobbly. Using a short fuselage under a windfoil board likely contributed to that. That likely was the difference from the easy to use 145l Alien Windfoil board to this Fanatic 142l windfoil board? I did get one run on the foil and started feeling more comfortable on my 3rd run, but that seemed to be it for the wind gusts so I slogged back to the dock.  

Windfoiling still does win on the ability to slog up wind but frankly today, it was wingfoiling for the win!