72 Sessions

After finishing a morning of work calls, I headed out to the Launch Pad and to wind which I knew was tapering off.

It was down to only 8-9 knots so I figured my only chance to get going would be to get the 99cm wing fixed. Amazon had provided me with a left hand drill / screw extractor kit. It worked well and I quickly had the broken bolts out of the mast.

First drill out the broken bolt using the left hand drill

Use the extractor to remove after drilling

Repeat on the other broken bolt

I filed the mast surface to make it flatter and put stainless screws in. It sits considerably tighter now than the last time I headed out with the 99cm wing and discovered that it floats!

The wind was really light and I slowly headed upwind doing heli tacks with the 7.0. I was starting to doubt whether to really call it a “session“ as I wanted my season tying 72nd session to be a real one. Just as I was about to give up, I managed to pump onto a plane briefly. And then 3 more times with a top speed of 21 km/h.

Windfoil trail - 4 sections where I pumped like heck!

My 4 planing sections

It was nice not to have footstraps on the board, and even nicer to have booties on with the 7c water. I was plenty warm in my 3/2 wetsuit in the 10c air doing all that pumping for a few short runs.

I’m still hoping for a more significant session over the next 4 days.