Unfortunately, lake swell, or deep ocean swell is different than ocean breaking swell. With lake or deep ocean swell, set speed is half wave speed. Or you can think of it as wave speed is twice set speed.
yes, but only just got a wing,, and no board until march for me. plus the learning curve, never done it.
This is the main issue, wind swell is usually only 3-5m wide, not one long wave like ground swell delivers. I find that they just don't last and you have to always be hunting for a new one. It helps a lot to be going across the wave and not down the wave though, then cut back and across the other side. Be on your toe side or heel side as much as you can.
Those are really small (& close together) swells. Hard to do anything much with that.Slappysan wrote: ↑Sat Feb 13, 2021 12:49 amThis is the main issue, wind swell is usually only 3-5m wide, not one long wave like ground swell delivers. I find that they just don't last and you have to always be hunting for a new one. It helps a lot to be going across the wave and not down the wave though, then cut back and across the other side. Be on your toe side or heel side as much as you can.
This is what I mainly do, even though I do it in the ocean it's still crappy wind swell and you can see I still end up out running the swell a lot:
That day was too windy for my usual hydrofoiling kite, Peak 4 5m so I had to use the 4.5m LF Solo which doesn't drift as well making it more challenging.
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