Great light wind foiling

I had a great lesson teaching Michelle and Ron as my season opener for the Launch Pad. Full blog post on the launchpad website includes Phillip getting foiling!

Phillip on his long foil run

Teaching at the Launch Pad

After the lesson, it was time for me to get out on the water. It was barely 8 knots and Phillip was indecisive as to whether he wanted to have his first session of the year. I said I’m gonna rig up the 8 m Ventis and the 2140 foil under the 142 Sky SUP foil board and I headed out. 

Wow what a light wind power machine. Got going got up wind had a couple of good runs, but then I parked the gear at the point.

My little 8 knot light wind session

I walked back and looked at Phillip and said "you’ve gotta go!" He said all right, then got his wetsuit on came to the point. We spotted a mink hanging out by the foilboard. Phillip hopped on the gear. He slogged into to the Harbour and then on his way coming out into the stronger winds of Georgian Bay he caught a couple of puffs pumped up onto the foil. He headed all the way out to Mann Island over 1km away on that one run!

Phillip headed to the point

Curious mink

Phillip way in the distance!

That is a good amount of distance!

I was chatting with him on the bbTalking headset the whole way and it was incredible how far he went on his one run and how well the headsets worked. They he had gotten so far into the wind shadow that it took him quite a while to head back. He never did get a second time up on the foil, but that one run was more than worth it.

Nice to have the Launch Pad build progressing and be able to get my windsurf locker ready for the season.

Temporary board storage

The new Launch Pad!