Are my harness line too short?

Nobody is trying to win friends or group hug.
A dose of reality, told as is, is what's needed.
Anyone saying rec foiling can approach rec windsurf speed is an ......

Come sail with me, at Berkeley. You will be dusted by my 24" lines, and I'm 73.

I don't even measure my harness lines. I just adjust them (and the boom height) until they feel right. I use the Sailworks lines.

We don't need to overthink this. Just tweak until it works. Then go out and foil your brains out. Wipe the smile off your face at the end.

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Awalkspoiled said..
Patrik are introducing an adjustable set of lines which can adjust with either hand, specifically for foil, with no swing even at full length. 28-42"!!!

Thanks for the update Ben Profit.

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t36 said..
I have the new Patrik 28-42 lines on my 3 foil-riggs. With the clamcleat system on the sailarm side and the concentional system on the boom head side. The lines don't swing and are working as wanted (the price is a bit too high compared to the others).

I'd really like those lines. The race lines I have swing so much that it's easy to accidentally hook when pumping or during a jibe. I've crashed a few foiling jibes due to that... (but that also says something about my skills)

Makes sense that really long lines would get hard to manage, so reduce the swing. I'm just the opposite using small sails and short lines. I like mine to swing freely. I cut all the support webbing off so they would swing, drop out and away of the hook for jibing. With short rigid lines, I would often rehook by accident when jibing. Although it did force me to sail clew first which I never tried before .

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WsurfAustin said..
Makes sense that really long lines would get hard to manage, so reduce the swing. I'm just the opposite using small sails and short lines. I like mine to swing freely. I cut all the support webbing off so they would swing, drop out and away of the hook for jibing. With short rigid lines, I would often rehook by accident when jibing. Although it did force me to sail clew first which I never tried before .

Agree, I have hooked a rigid line by accident, and use short lines too, with the Sailworks Quiktune lines I have the tube cut so that it is inside the cleat at the minimum setting, which means both ends of the tube are locked in place, that allows me to use a thumb to flip the line out of hook when needed (Guy Cribb tip), but lines still swing too because attachment between the cleat side, and other end of tube, to boom is flexible.