I am interested to know if you can foil out on big ocean swell. Has anyone done it or have you seen any videos?
hey dude,
theres heaps of videos just check Kevin langeree " I found the endless wave"
u can follow ocean swell on any wing I reckon but the bigger wings will be slower and needing less assistance of the kite .. I use medium aspect slingshot hover glide and can't pump the swell like kai Lenny but ride along with it and I think the drift of the kite is the more important factor to catch the swell downwind
which wing wo u have or think of buying..?
Yep. Been out in 4m. The bigger the swell the faster it goes. You need to be comfortable at speed for the big stuff.
I read this post a couple days ago, so yesterday decided to go way out back to see.
my first thought was that the swell as I denote it from a wave break, runs totally with the wind.
given I had maybe 14kts of wind and the swell around here runs about 12kts.
It was all about kite drift once on the swell and my Std Spitfire wings were plenty powered and no problems out running wave but still stuck with very little line tension to turn kite. This sort of limited me to only running the directions I started with.
these were not big swells but still more than enough to get lift.
personally more wind to keep line tension is a desirable thing.
plus you travel some big distance in short time.
Select to expand quoteRAL INN said..
I read this post a couple days ago, so yesterday decided to go way out back to see.
my first thought was that the swell as I denote it from a wave break, runs totally with the wind.
given I had maybe 14kts of wind and the swell around here runs about 12kts.
It was all about kite drift once on the swell and my Std Spitfire wings were plenty powered and no problems out running wave but still stuck with very little line tension to turn kite. This sort of limited me to only running the directions I started with.
these were not big swells but still more than enough to get lift.
personally more wind to keep line tension is a desirable thing.
plus you travel some big distance in short time.
In that instance rip cross swell, looping like a maniac while transitioning. You can also do an opposite slingshot type move where you loop the kite in the opposite direction that you a going. Keeps the line tension and you can go deep downwind.
As it turns out my bar and lines set up is great for this
I can over sheet by 15cm
I stall the kite at about 45 degrees straight down wind and can sort of play around behind it with very little pull
