Foling Heli tacks

Nice work David!!
Reckon you're close
Can you give us some feedback on your setup
Looks like a lager board with larger volume that you sail with compact geometry
Mast track back, foil and feet forwards?
Does it feel loose for its size and how's the takeoff?
Cheers

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2keen said..
Nice work David!!
Reckon you're close
Can you give us some feedback on your setup
Looks like a lager board with larger volume that you sail with compact geometry
Mast track back, foil and feet forwards?
Does it feel loose for its size and how's the takeoff?
Cheers

Thanks Simon!
Yes I am consistently pulling off what is filmed here with occasional glimmers of hope. My main problem is the same one everyone has learning the gybe, keeping the board banked and turning all the way around the turn.

I am riding the 7' 144 liter V1 Slingshot Shred Sled. I feel strongly about only riding boards I can reliably uphaul with one foot in front of the mast, regardless of how strong the wind is blowing.

I am using the SAB foil 1100 front wing with the 483 stab on the 900 fuse that I bored out for M8 titanium bolts.

The sail is a 3.7 meter Naish.

I have the foil all the way forward and the sail all the way back. I need to double check these dimensions but the front of the mast to the sail is only around 636mm or 25"

Loose would be an understatement. How about whiplash hazard. I love it for wave riding!

Take off is interesting. I have posted in the past about the release edge/step that I added and this improved the take off in general and really helped me get 790 front wing going. I pretty much always ride with the 1100 and with that wing I think the results are impressive. I know the board can be improved on but one thing it has going for it is volume enough and in the right spot that my 100kg can stand in the foiling position at slow speeds. Here is a video of some of the take offs from the same session as the tacks. The breeze started out 12-20 knots but then quickly died to roughly 8-14 knots with short lived gusts. I would have prefered to be on my 4.5 but I only had an hour to sail and more important I had my wife filming so I made it work.