Yes Peter's advice is right on. I often ride with my back foot in front of the rear strap and I always do that just before tacking or gybing. I only put my rear foot in the strap when I want to go fast or jump or to feel stable in challenging conditions. When you look for straps you will want to fin...

You should apply your anti corrosion compound everywhere stainless steel touches aluminum.. apply liberally to threads. TefGel is a great thick compound but it is quite expensive. Loctite Blue is less expensive and commonly available, at least in North America. Lithium grease is cheap and common eve...

nice picture

Hey heavy guys 200-230lbs...From research it looks like my bottom end on a 12m pivot would be 10kts or so on hydrofoil, so is there really any advantage to getting a single strut kite? If so what size do you recommend for 8-15kt range? I own three Pivots, (5, 7, 9) and a Boxer 12. The Boxer is ligh...

I found sitting on my 128 cm Alpine board worked but it took some effort to keep my balance. Then I realized it was way easier just to put my feet on the fuselage under water, one in front of the mast and one behind. The board is downwind between me and the kite and facing perpendicular to the wind....

Informative and quite technical:

I lost my 8m Flysurfer Soul when my harness line broke (I knew it was worn and should have replaced it) and then my kite leash stainless steel weld part failed. The last I saw of my kite was flopping downwind toward land several km away. The wind was over 20 knots. My buddy dragged me in. I then sea...

You can easily form a thin gasket between the mast base and your board with strips of common electrical tape on your mast base. Electrical tape does not degrade in water..

Agreed.
You can use any good epoxy (not the 5 minute kind) to fill small dings in your wing but not to build up a wing tip like this. Just sand the sharp edges and don't worry.. you'll never notice it.
CG

I'm appx 200lbs My new board is 3' and the foil is a 1200 normally use a Strutless 9m. I had ZERO luck waterstarting it on my first session. Eye opening. Everything I've done before didn't work. I biased my front foot heavily to prevent the larger (to me) foil from breaching on my starts but it jus...