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Re: How high are you pointing upwind? Are 30° already possible?

Postby BraCuru » Thu Aug 30, 2018 6:08 pm

Flysurfer Soul 15m, Moses Comet 2018, wind 12kts, no current:
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The feeling is unbelievable.
It was one of my first rides with Soul and I had impression that I go almost directly into the wind.
I think that with a bit more training even an amateur rider like me can achieve 30 degrees upwind.
However the board's speed was low - max 16kts. VMG rather poor too.

BTW. I use a Garmin kite app which shows me real heading while riding. It helps a lot.

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Re: How high are you pointing upwind? Are 30° already possible?

Postby Regis-de-giens » Thu Aug 30, 2018 9:23 pm

Great ! Same feeling with my pulsion, hence my remark on the upwind angle vs kite medium ratio.

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Re: How high are you pointing upwind? Are 30° already possible?

Postby BraCuru » Fri Aug 31, 2018 9:17 am

Regis-de-giens wrote:
Thu Aug 30, 2018 9:23 pm
Great ! Same feeling with my pulsion, hence my remark on the upwind angle vs kite medium ratio.
Regis - I fully agree with your points.
I was compering Flysurfer Soul 15 vs Ozone R1V2 and Moses Comet 2018 vs MikeLabs 2018 together with one of the top World racers a couple weeks ago.
We were swapping the gear in all possible configurations.
Soul could go upwind a bit higher than R1V2.
However her upwind speed was up to 5kts slower!!!

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Re: How high are you pointing upwind? Are 30° already possible?

Postby Horst Sergio » Sat Sep 01, 2018 11:42 am

Pedro Marcos wrote:
Wed Aug 29, 2018 10:03 pm
Interesting, what about downwind? Are you able to hold some speed?
Pretty poor,
but enough to not be outdistanced by normal good freeride foiler to much. Top speeds are 38 km/h and 35 km/h on low and high AR wings and around 32 km/h mean for 1 km,
but If going downwind for some km I spend the time to improve my skills in stunt kiting ("It is realy possible to fly a high AR foil oversheeted, pointing backwards constantly" is one of the results :wink: :D )
Also on half-wind, speed is similar poor, but enough for low level boosting all board offs, etc.
Just upwind I am on a VMG level of 13 knts and so competitive with amateur freeracers, but in contrast to stabifoils, best VMG of my monos is always close to the highest angle, as I always try to avoid the higher board speeds.
But while I think I can push the speeds another small step by around 3 km/h, it is not even the goal to go anything higher.

The Goal when changing from stabi to mono was always to avoid dangerous speeds of 50 - 60+ km/h and having a very compact well transportable, but in many aspects also very high performing toy. That this toy is maybe in some special diciplins, as low wind or upwind angle, able to set the mark or at least to be close to it, is just a part of the results. It has never been the goal to find a "one trick pony", but exactly the opposite:

One simple compact and not dangerous foil for most conditions and disciplins (wave, freestyle, freeride, upwind-freerace) with great low wind performance, for me = Monofoil

@Bracuru:
thanks for sharing, impressive values, especially for the Soul which I didn't expect :thumb: If I would go back to stabifoils Mike's Lab or comet could be also my choice

And yes, feeling especially in the tacks is impressive, as if the system just wants to pull you upwind upwind upwind all the time :D

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Re: How high are you pointing upwind? Are 30° already possible?

Postby BraCuru » Sat May 25, 2019 5:19 pm

30 degrees broken today :)
Soul 15m, lines 12m, Moses Comet 2018, hover board, wind 15-18kts :)

28 degrees,

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Re: How high are you pointing upwind? Are 30° already possible?

Postby plummet » Sat May 25, 2019 7:20 pm

I dont have the gps to measure but i get some crazy ass upwind angles when im on my Chrono V1.

When cross on comming back towards the beach is still tacking you out yo sea thats weird as f***!

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Re: How high are you pointing upwind? Are 30° already possible?

Postby BraCuru » Tue May 28, 2019 7:42 am

plummet wrote:
Sat May 25, 2019 7:20 pm
I dont have the gps to measure but i get some crazy ass upwind angles when im on my Chrono V1.

When cross on comming back towards the beach is still tacking you out yo sea thats weird as f***!
Try to get trackings from riding these insane angles.

The feeling is amazing to take the wave from the same side on both tacks. Madness :) :jump: :dance3:

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Re: How high are you pointing upwind? Are 30° already possible?

Postby BraCuru » Fri Aug 14, 2020 10:11 pm

R1V2 19m on 12m lines, Moses Comet 671 today:
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Re: How high are you pointing upwind? Are 30° already possible?

Postby Pedro Marcos » Fri Aug 14, 2020 10:13 pm

haha looks like downwind angles, what speed are you going?

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Re: How high are you pointing upwind? Are 30° already possible?

Postby Slappysan » Fri Aug 14, 2020 10:31 pm

Seems wrong to me to measure the angle off dead upwind, would make much more sense to measure the angle pointing upwind of a direct beam reach.


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