Foiling success with a huge sail

After finishing work emails I hopped on the SeaDoo to check that indeed my best friend Geoff and his new beau were on their way out to see us in his canoe. With them getting close but fighting a bit of a headwind, I headed out to the bay to see if there might be some late afternoon wind for windsurfing.

It was 6 knots so I tried the 9.0m sail again with the Slingshot 76cm foil under the Techno 148. Amazingly there were enough 10 knot gusts of wind to get me going from time to time.

Then the wind picked up to 12 knots with the very occasional whitecap. I was now getting up on the foil consistently and without pumping like crazy. With enough wind it just slides up onto a plane. Then when you head upwind it goes nicely, and going downwind is silent and wonderful.

I realized after several runs that my back footstrap was too far back. And next time I will adjust more than just my boom height and see if I can get even more comfortable on my reaches. Overall I did 19.36km in just under 1:45. A very successful session.

Here are some nice shots Geoff took as my session was coming to an end. After that I headed in to join everyone for some Georgian Bay Gin and Tonics.

It was pretty warm out!

Awesome boat driver - Thanks for taking Geoff out to the island
and showing Jen the Bay!

Session data:

Up on the foil over 30% of the session. Definitely got the good part of the day!

Lots of distance covered on my foilboard with the big 9.0m sail
More than a few Jibe attempts, none while up on the foil