When I turn a foil despite my best efforts I never really get a feeling that it is carving, not in the same way you feel a carve when gybing a windsurfer or paddle surfing.
I don't get that locked in feeling that you are pushing hard against something that is pushing back and creating that wonderful locked in sensation as you come round that you do when carving on a board with a rail.
On a 4m Gin Maroubu on flat water I can get something close to a carve but still feels like I am steering the board round not carving. Normally though my local conditions are short range windswell and I can't get any sensation of carving in that!
With all this talk of wings that are great for carving I am wondering if I am going wrong somewhere or if foil boards are just more designed to pivot, or do I need to commit more? I probably don't lean the board over very far when I turn, do other people find that helps to get more of a 'carve' or am I chasing a pipe dream and foil boards will never deliver the same carving sensation as surface boards?
Any thoughts?!
Thanks all