Keep the supercruiser and either add the foot strap plugs in the right location or change the board.
The other though I had was to add tracks or a tuttle box under the back strap. This will help lower the sail to foil dimension and get some width and volume around you back foot. The con is weight which is a bummer fin or foil.
Thats a great foil to learn on and thats why most are recomending you to change boards.
Race oriented foils will help balance your board but there is just no tail volume where your fiin box is and your sail track is really far forward. That will always be a challenge on the foil.
Personally, I would leave that sweet custom for fin sailing and pick up a used dedicated foil board.
Select to expand quoteFFish said..
Yeah I will not think about that extension anymore.
Finally after 2 almost 3 weeks of no wind something is forecasted her in the North of Italy!
I'll give that Supercruiser another go, hopefully without too much damage this time...
If I realize that I will only struggle more with the front Wing position under my back foot I will sell the Supercruiser and get another foil with the larger space between mast and trailing edge like I would need.
I have been studying different foils now, and the GA foils look a whole lot more interesting.
The Hybrid with the alu mast and DT top adapter goes for 900eur and and the Mach1 with the carbon DT mast for 1300eur
Everything interchangable, lots of components and spare parts to build just what you need, other than current Starboard's foil range, especially my 2021 Supercruiser is a disaster with like 0 modularity..
A dedicated foil board? Nah, not yet. Besides that my custom Thommen is a bomb, just looking for some more light wind use at the moment.
Good luck and let us know how it goes. You have way too little time on water to be considering new gear. If any of your mates can windfoil have them ride your gear and see if they can make it work. If not then you will need change something. If they can make if fly then you just need learn how to windfoil.
If you keep the Thommen, just take off the footstraps and foil strapless. Many foilers do this. You can walk around until you find the balance. You won't be limited by footstrap positions. It seems you are a beginning foiler. Strapless is good advice until you figure it out.
Select to expand quotesegler said..
If you keep the Thommen, just take off the footstraps and foil strapless. Many foilers do this. You can walk around until you find the balance. You won't be limited by footstrap positions. It seems you are a beginning foiler. Strapless is good advice until you figure it out.
+1
Removing the straps helped me find the sweet spot to get started, then adjust from there. I would start with that, then move the sail mast base around to see if any of the foot strap positions would work.
Thanks everybody for the feedback.
Yeah I know I should just go out on the water. Finally after 3 weeks of virtually NO wind, things seems to start moving!
