I don't know about "the future". My spot's been overrun with foilers which seem to be always in the way for a few years now. Foiling's definitely fun but super limited. Foiling'a good for just cruising, light wind or super chopped out water but that's about it. There's nothing like a good hard top and bottom turn with a big 'ol spray catching the sunlight just right or a nice floater on a surfboard or even a twin tip for that matter. Nothin like launching 50 feet into the air off a 15 foot wave and landing it clean and riding off smoothly either. Foil-shmoil.Foil wrote: ↑Fri May 11, 2018 9:38 pmCross off today, very gusty, 10-35 knots, 6 MTR kite,
5 ft waves, or some would call swell,
3 jet ski rescue guys on hand, as this is an off shore,mega windy holiday location.
Had a blast,
so strange,as gybing back out was so easy, smooth ,and felt so good..
Rescue was not used, so my 50 euro rescue cover is still intact for another 364 days, or 3 pick ups, whichever comes first!
But sailing back to shore in the gusty winds was easy,
Why?
I was using my Foil Board.
Welcome to the future.
I really like you! We gotta meet somewhere... you sound experienced enough to tackle the conditions you describe... Don’t know abt you but I trust my kite upwind way better than I trust it downwind, where you need to loop it to keep it powered, plus you got the wave powering you. Offshore sounds like a blast. Oh, and as Plummet says, be ready to ditch your gear & swim if need be. Have fun & tell us about it...kitegirls wrote: ↑Sun May 13, 2018 8:32 amI don't know about "the future". My spot's been overrun with foilers which seem to be always in the way for a few years now. Foiling's definitely fun but super limited. Foiling'a good for just cruising, light wind or super chopped out water but that's about it. There's nothing like a good hard top and bottom turn with a big 'ol spray catching the sunlight just right or a nice floater on a surfboard or even a twin tip for that matter. Nothin like launching 50 feet into the air off a 15 foot wave and landing it clean and riding off smoothly either. Foil-shmoil.Foil wrote: ↑Fri May 11, 2018 9:38 pmCross off today, very gusty, 10-35 knots, 6 MTR kite,
5 ft waves, or some would call swell,
3 jet ski rescue guys on hand, as this is an off shore,mega windy holiday location.
Had a blast,
so strange,as gybing back out was so easy, smooth ,and felt so good..
Rescue was not used, so my 50 euro rescue cover is still intact for another 364 days, or 3 pick ups, whichever comes first!
But sailing back to shore in the gusty winds was easy,
Why?
I was using my Foil Board.
Welcome to the future.
...and the answer is that yes, it's almost impossible to catch waves if the wind is dead offshore (meaning straight offshore). You would have to edge like crazy to have any hope of staying on the face of the wave and you probably won't succeed. Basically, there is no kite in the world that "drifts" well straight upwind / into the wind, which is the direction where you would like to go to speed down the face of the wave to make a bottom turn. So, with dead offshore wind like that, what you will have to do is to dig in your edge and basically drag your kite upwind with you, so to speak. Forget about trying to make any turns on the wave in those conditions - the best you can hope for is to not get dragged over the shoulder of the wave by your kite. It's not what anyone would call fun waveriding.
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