It does introduce bubbles so the board has less wetted surface, therefore less drag. I've never seen any discussion of bubbles reducing resistance at the speeds that a foil board travels at. The only two options I've ever seen discussed are pressurized air being injected under the hull, or reaching...

A concave catching pockets of air under the board does wonders to reduce the active surface area despite a small increase in overall board surface area. How could a half-inch of concave pressurize air enough to displace the water under the board? People have tried to entrap air under planing boats ...

StellaBlu wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 07, 2021 9:45 pm

For example in freestyle kayaking many boats have hull designs that disrupt the surface of the water and successfully loosen the boat for spins or other maneuvers (works for spinning not carving).

What do these designs look like?

I've been watching a lot of how to wingfoil videos latetly, and I see the same misconception I've often seen in kitefoiling discussions. Most of the videos say the way to get on foil is to break the suction or surface tension with the water. I don't disagree that there is some attraction between the...

Seems that above 115 cm the loss of stiffness starts to outweighs the benefits

I think that's about right for shipping a small parcel across the Atlantic. I was looking at a Hipe and a Foil, shipping quote was 275 Euros to US. I tried paying in Euros again with no luck. I don't really understand why they keep cancelling my order. Oh well, I give up, I'm going to buy something...

faklord wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 22, 2020 3:59 pm

I had this problem (from Uk). There was an option to Pay in Euros or GBP. GBP didn’t work, Euros did.

Thanks! I think I had tried to pay in euros one of the times, but that might have been the same time that the items in stock changed by the time I paid. I'll give paying in Euros another try.

Sorry off topic, but has anyone in the US been able to order from Gong successfully recently? I keep putting in an order, they send me a shipping quote, I put in my credit card info, get an error and they cancel my order. No where on the website to contact them it seems for this issue. Is it just me...

I would never go back to inflatables for under 20 knots, but over 20 knots I've had a lot of trouble with race foil kites.The bridles whip around and tangle themselves up in seconds. If the kite doesn't fully inflate on launch, you get ripped down the beach trying to backstall it. If the bridles do ...

I've seen this shared a lot, but the whole design makes no sense to me. Why would the connection for the kite be so far aft? The forces just don't line up. How do you launch a giant foil kite (20m-50m) in heavy winds for a boat that can only go one direction? Sailrocket 2 noted that the wing sail wa...