Has a super windy session yesterday. (3m peak, 12m lines, lift 170)
Soooooooo windy for foiling. Probably 35+ , I really just kept the kite at noon the entire time just playing the rear line tension to keep the kite happy. Kite takes most of your weight so not a lot on the foil making it so you can foil really slow when needed and just play the swell. put the kite at 11:57 and your on port tack, 12:03 and your on starboard. Really only blip the kite to 11:50 or 12:10 for a waterstart. With the kite taking most of your weight you can point super high upwind or surf straight down swell and not pick up too much speed. Learn to keep your boat speed in a nice moderate with slow bits envelope and you can really tame some gnarly conditions. Hardest part of the entire thing is getting back to your board after a fall. My foil literally rolled on the surface foil going over the top due to wind! It can really start to motor when sailing on its side, and upwind progress body dragging is not possible. Thankfully the swell were big enough to eventually get it foil down and swimming down wind. No hands free waterstarts that session! No airs, in fact so challenging I barely switched feet and rode in weak stance. Still, so worth it. Some super pitchy wave spots to play in.