Wow, what a great Monday in Cape Hatteras, North Carolina!
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| That’s me blasting out until sunset! |
I started off at 10am on the Skate 108 and 5.6 Idol sail but it wasn’t quite enough to get going.
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| Only got planing for a moment…. |
So I changed to wing foiling with the Duotone Slick 5m and the Slingshot 99 cm foil with the short mast under the Sky 125 board. I had a great 105 minutes doing 26 km. My tacks seem to be going pretty well.
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| Fun GPS trail wingfoiling |
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| A bunch of jibes and tacks! |
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| Old foil max speed 13.9 knots |
One fun part of that foil session was seeing a big turtle swimming in the water. It was a lot bigger than the one I found in the parking lot by the post office when I went to pick up the BBtalkin headsets. I am looking forward to unboxing those BBtalkin headsets that arrived at the post office and made it to the Vacasa/Hatteras Realty shop. They picked the package up just before it was returned to sender by USPS!
After a lunch of leftover pizza I had fun watching Phillip have a great session with the 140l Stingray board with the 99cm Slingshot and short mast. I got some photos and video!
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| Phillip getting good at wingfoiling - his 3rd day ever! |
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| That’s my boy! |
Now it was time to try new the Duotone Aero 1080 foil and carbon mast, again with the 5m Slick under the 125 Sky board. It only took a few minutes to get used to the much smaller foil - it did feel less substantial under me for sure. On the 10/81 time ever that small. I found it surprisingly easy to learn. It did feel like it was slipping down in the water, but it had the nice feature that when I breached a few times it would reattach even before I got the board back down.
I also jumped it, which is much more comfortable than jumping the big 2000 cm front foil. My tacks got pretty good during my first session. I only did a couple in the second session. The wind had picked up a lot that tacking started becoming quite a challenge.
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| Surprisingly long first part of my session on the new small foil without blowing a jibe! And then lots of crashes near the end. New small foil max speed 14.6 knots = 5% faster |
Jen had gone out in the morning stand up paddle boarding and then was out again in the afternoon when I was having my long session on the new gear. It was great seeing her out in the water and having fun. So exciting to have her knee working for her after missing most of the winter ski season. Sad I didn’t get any photos.
After that, it was time to try wind foiling with the 5.2 Idol windsurf sail on the 140l Stingray with the 99cm foil underneath. The up-wind down-wind angles on a wind foil is really quite remarkable as you can see in the graph of my GPS trail. My upwind runs were super easy to do. I usually was just riding upwind with one hand on the boom and still getting the fastest speeds (red parts). No footstraps! My downwind runs were fun - much more surfy!
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| Amazing upwind / downwind angles WINDFOILING (That is using a windsurf sail on a foilboard) |
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| The fastest runs were upwind! 13.6 knots |
Finally, as the sun was getting lower on the horizon I thought maybe the 5.2 Idol would be enough to get the Skate 108 going. It worked amazingly well! It did take almost the whole session before I started getting better jibes on the outside. But on the inside I was having fun doing carving 360s, duck jibes and decent planing jibes. 20km in just under an hour.
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| Windsurf tracks just go back and forth… |
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| My speed on the windsurfer has a pattern… Slow working upwind… then faster and finally super fast going into the jibe! Max speed 24.5 knots = 45.3 km/h |
Bryan got the nice sunset photo of me at the top of this blog post as I was the last windsurfer out there with just 2 kiters for company. It was nice to come in, have a hot tub and find burgers in the house saved for me. Everyone else had already had their dinner. The house has 14 adults and 6 kids which is a great vibe.
Gonna have a good sleep tonight - but need to do taxes tomorrow.
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| Summary of the sessions! Total 88.1 km |
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