Hi ameo, you are doing great. Here are a few other ideas you can try. 8.5 is a big sail. I am 105kg and i use 7.0 even in light winds. Its not as fast around a race course but way lighter and easier. I think at your weight a 6m cambered race sail or preferably a free foil cambered sail like a severne hyperglide would be ideal. I havent used one but a good friend is your size and loves his. This size would be good to learn all the techniques. also use a short carbon boom with small diameter tubes, much easier to grip and lighter than the boom on your 8.5 sail. I foil with no straps and no harness for up to 6 hours straight.I think you should try it. With booties you have good grip. I know many will disagree but i like it because i have no fear of getting stuck in straps and harness and i can perfectly position my feet. Next thing is think less power and stand upright. Practice going down wind as far as you can go. There can be almost no pressure in yhe rig and you can stand really upright and square across the board. Think no power and then you will get used to it. Then later you can add power and straps and harness but unless you are course racing you dont need either. I am not strong or fit. On the fin i need a harness and cant sail 30seconds unk
hooked. On a foil i dont need a harness. I will wear one if i am going to sail for 10 minutes on one tack, but to learn faster i think its better to tack and gybe more and with a smaller lighter rig and good boom you dont need a harness on the foil. Try it and feel the freedom.
Select to expand quotePiv said..
Hi ameo, you are doing great. Here are a few other ideas you can try. 8.5 is a big sail. I am 105kg and i use 7.0 even in light winds. Its not as fast around a race course but way lighter and easier. I think at your weight a 6m cambered race sail or preferably a free foil cambered sail like a severne hyperglide would be ideal.....
Absolutely agree with Piv. I'm 70kg and 8.5 is enormous - I'm generally on a 1000cm freerace wing. Especially starting out, as Piv also suggested, try something from 6- 7 max. Remember that once you are above the water, your drag drops about 30%. With a 7.7 and a surf wing - roughly similar to the i76, I can foil in 5-10. If you even see a hing of a whitecap, consider being on something less than a 7.
Good luck!
Hi Piv and Paducah
thank you for your advices.
yes, yes, i know, i know.
my most frequent sail is cheetah6.0. and i will replace it to hydra6.0 soon.
and i have hydra8.5 also, but i only use it in very very light wind, less than 3 m/s. the combination of hydra8.5 and infinity99 is so wonderful that i sometimes could fly in such a very light wind!
no strap and no harness sound that they could make me notice a new world. i am really very looking forward to try so many advices which i got here, one by one.
Select to expand quotePiv said..
Hi ameo, you are doing great. Here are a few other ideas you can try. 8.5 is a big sail. I am 105kg and i use 7.0 even in light winds. Its not as fast around a race course but way lighter and easier. I think at your weight a 6m cambered race sail or preferably a free foil cambered sail like a severne hyperglide would be ideal. I havent used one but a good friend is your size and loves his. This size would be good to learn all the techniques. also use a short carbon boom with small diameter tubes, much easier to grip and lighter than the boom on your 8.5 sail. I foil with no straps and no harness for up to 6 hours straight.I think you should try it. With booties you have good grip. I know many will disagree but i like it because i have no fear of getting stuck in straps and harness and i can perfectly position my feet. Next thing is think less power and stand upright. Practice going down wind as far as you can go. There can be almost no pressure in yhe rig and you can stand really upright and square across the board. Think no power and then you will get used to it. Then later you can add power and straps and harness but unless you are course racing you dont need either. I am not strong or fit. On the fin i need a harness and cant sail 30seconds unk
hooked. On a foil i dont need a harness. I will wear one if i am going to sail for 10 minutes on one tack, but to learn faster i think its better to tack and gybe more and with a smaller lighter rig and good boom you dont need a harness on the foil. Try it and feel the freedom.
Piv, how do you sail without a harness? My arms would get so tired. I use the harness hook as a pivoting point and use it to lean forwards and backwards to adjust flight hight as well as taking the load off the arms. I know many people don't use the harness windfoiling. I do foil with no footstraps and I love it. Love the freedom!
I also use my harness a lot. Without it going upwind hurts like hell, plus the harness greatly increases stability due to mast foot preassure, its faster too! Today I changed my line length during foiling (I have those with a knot you have to untie and then tie again, so the ones which are meant to be adjusted ashore), and to be honest after 2km of foiling with one hand it became quote heavy....
I cant do without my harness both when I freeride and rig on average 4m smaller than most windsurfers and 2m smaller than most other foilers, and when I race, when I'm on 10.0 or 9.0 pretty much independent of condition. (92kg)
