Well the wind has been pretty light. We're talking 5-8 knots. 2 Beaufort. Not a white cap to be seen.
So after my work emails were done I decided to rig the 9.0m NP V8 sail I haven't used in the last 2 years since I started foiling. Wow is that sail heavy. I'd forgotten how heavy it is even with a carbon mast and boom.
I headed out turned around and pumped and got up on the foil briefly! I went back in to get my harness which is more important with a 9.0 in low wind than the 6.5 in medium wind. The wind was even lighter on my 2nd run so I called it a day.
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| Pretty glassy conditions recently. Le windsurf, c'est relaxe |
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| My foil track. Pretty easy to make good upwind ground when slogging. |
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| Got up on the foil once though! |
The next day I went out again, and managed to get planing one more time.
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The weather data in the Garmin app is way off. Wind direction was SW.
And since the air is coming over the water, it is more like 23c. |
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| And once more the next day. |
Man, I'm looking forward to some 10 knot winds to try the 9.0 again. And then hopefully a day of shortboarding sometime this summer?
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