Tuesday, January 26, 2010

First

Guess who was first to do a foiling gybe on SLINO...?

Guess who is owed a rum...?

Started out with 20 knots today so decided on the chicken rig. Markla was first but had a couple of big crashes early with a tangled wand not working properly. Ended up being about 12 knots by the time we were off the water. The chicken rig still faired reasonably well in the lighter wind except for trying to stay deep downwind, that was a bit of an effort but to be expected.

Narkla hit bottom, hard, while going into a tack on foils. Water was only about thigh deep...doh! No major damage (slight chip on one tip) but these foils of Al's are really taking a beating well. They've hit bottom at pace a number of times. Bit of a drag to get back to deeper water only to have some shunt jetskier spray me from within a boat length, TOOL!

Still lacking a bit of height so the plan is to add a little AOA to the mainfoil and see what happens.


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