The Duotone Wing

[Dan-at-Duotone]

CG-

No idea at this point when (or even definitively IF) this will make it to market. We should have one in the Gorge this summer... Come down and take it for a test! Should be a perfect tool for the Viento downwinder.

-Dan

[bragnouff]

Got a few old kites in the shed, and I feel like they could get a second lease of life as kitewing.
Keep the wingtip sections up to a bladder, and join together somehow with some sort of angle. Like PVC piping elbows.
Shall we open a DIY section on the forum?

[Jfoil]

Got a few old kites in the shed, and I feel like they could get a second lease of life as kitewing.
Keep the wingtip sections up to a bladder, and join together somehow with some sort of angle. Like PVC piping elbows.
Shall we open a DIY section on the forum?

Good luck, I have tried a few earlier wing designs and sizes, and just because it “looks like a wing”, they have vast performance differences.

[ronnie]

This looks like Sky downwinding with the wing? Sky has removed it from his Instagram, so if he wants this removed, I will.


I have seen the release date of the Duotone wing quoted as 17/6/2019?

[ronnie]

Another wing.

[Eltreato]

Dan thanks for your informative post.
I'd give it a try.
Any idea if Duotone is going to bring a product to market soon.. like this season?

CG

(kiters are not permitted on some of our best beaches here, but windsurfers are, and this may fit in the windsurfing category )

These beach closures are the reason that as a kitefoiler i got into windfoiling, it turns out it's super fun, especially shutting off the sail and going straight downwind for hundreds of meters at a time. You're not getting pulled off the swell like with a kite.The depower of these wings looks incredible. I could see these wings being a replacement for my smallest sails, assuming they upwind okay, though i don't believe they would be feasible in anything below 20 knot for the average mortal like me.

[Jfoil]

[ronnie]

Robby Naish.jpg

Robby with presumably a Naish wing prototype?

Robby's old mate Pete Cabrinha way back in the day with another wing experiment.


(from windsurfing.pl)

[Jfoil]

The Naish wing is out. Better name, but no windows. I think they are making a mistake without windows. They are really needed. Can’t be too hard to add in a few windows.

[mr_daruman]

The boards are huge and thick! The wing is in your face? Two hands required?
Maybe a slight upgrade to windsurfers, but a huge downgrade for kitesurfers.
Let me know when I can ride my 3'6 x 17 x 1.8 3kg kite foil board with one of these wings in light winds. Looking 10 years in the future I dont see this ever being possible.