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14th August 2021 Windsurfing: Bradfield Wind Direction: SW Wind Stength: 8kts-12kts Surf / Sea State: flat/swell Air Temperature: warm Sea Temperature: warm Weather: Sunny Max Speed: 19.11 (knots - unless stated otherwise) Distance Covered: 15.3nm (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise) First time out in ages on foil, delayed by nursing ankle twisting after falling on a gravel trail in Norfolk, whilst clipped to bike. Colsey Nick James "team" Patrik were out and Lord James turned up later after spotted me flying. Wind was light but gusted up nicely for an hour around high tide. All rigged big kit and after I purchased Starboard race kit, after giving up on the poor quality of Slingshot fuse connections. I used the race fuse 115+ with a 900 wing previously but found it very difficult to take off. Quite a lot of speed was needed or vigorous pumping, which am not into. This time I rigged the freeride wing 1100 + 95+ fuse with a 330 rear wing set at +1 degree. When the gusts came at say 12kts this is the perfect setup am used to from the freeride Slingshot. It sails very similar the slightly shorter fuse, but what was a big difference was the 330 stab set at 1 degree - it was very stable in a straight line, none of this yo yoing of the 76 Slingshot. The fuse use 5 bolts to secure to the mast, so no worries it might separate like Slingshot. Great day loads of gusts runs and ankle just swolled a little as only had one fall trying to gybe. The pros were flying all day and Levington James looked very fast on his new Patrik with his 9.3 race sail. I hit 19.11kts in the light wind without even attempting going downwind so the Starboard kit is quick. More wind Sunday so plan to setup same again just to see which set up I prefer, the full on race set up 900 FR wing /115+ fuse/255 stab. With the rear stab spacers, the kit has so many permutations I dont really sail enough to try them all. Its very tunable. DC says its a constant fine tuning depending on conditions for an optimum sail, so guess thats very true. |
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