Back on the foil again

There wasn't any wind on the first glorious warm Saturday of spring, so I was hoping that Sunday would be good. The site windy.com predicted nice wind all afternoon, but I was suspecting that the pending afternoon rain would be an issue.

I got out to the Launch Pad after a late breakfast and there were a few gusts showing, I figured 5-14 knots. So I took the old 6.5 NP V8 and the Techno 148 with the 76cm foil.

I tacked upwind and had several very nice runs. For my second day of foiling in 2020, it felt quite comfortable. I didn't overfoil at all and only touched down once or twice on each run.

I even tried some very slow jibes, dropping down intentionally and focusing on getting my foot into the front strap right away after switching direction. I've been seeing that as the recommended way to turn on many many video tutorials.

The rain came around 40 minutes into my session and after one more foiling run in the rain it was pretty much over. Once it was clear that the wind wasn't coming back, I spent the last few runs just enjoying the water. My feet were fine without booties. I closed my eyes several times and made it to 60 seconds windsurfing with my eyes closed. Few

I played a bit with upwind 360s in both directions and then headed in. My nice wife got a shot of me heading back to shore. 

Heading back after a nice little Sunday session

Wind was SE most of the time, except for one brief SW moment

Some nice 1 km long runs on the foil
Was the high heart rate because I started slogging with my eyes closed?

It felt great to have a warm shower on the island and then do some more spring clean up.

Later in the evening, the Coast Guard came by aligning the markers on the small craft route off our point. Cool.

Thanks to the Coast Guard for checking the small craft
route markers in our area.