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Lake George weed

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Created by sboardcrazy > 9 months ago, 5 Mar 2018
sboardcrazy
NSW, 8225 posts
5 Mar 2018 6:11PM
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I was interested to see how much the lake changes in just one run across and back..Best seen in high quality..

fangman
WA, 1903 posts
5 Mar 2018 4:05PM
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Noice Sue That glass is looks sooooo good.
Something I noticed and can't explain: In the below screenshot of you mid gybe, there is no obvious turbulent wake coming from the the FF24. Is the weed absorbing all the turbulence before it can get the surface? Have you got any other video using a different fin to compare it with?





decrepit
WA, 12765 posts
5 Mar 2018 6:11PM
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I can see about a dozen bubbles behind Sue, in the fins track. So there is a small amount of turbulence.
Maybe mid gybe, there's very little angle of attack?

fangman
WA, 1903 posts
5 Mar 2018 6:41PM
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That's seems pretty plausible Decrep. I have just gone back and had a look at my videos and the same thing happens, I just never noticed it before

olskool
QLD, 2459 posts
6 Mar 2018 3:05AM
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Im no guru, but surely turbulence is due to Aoa and angle board is from real wind.Across the wind one side of fin is working hard. Clearly seen as turbulence if you have a heavy back foot. As you bear away Aoa decreases relative to actual wind direction. Fin laminar flow would then be closer to even both sides of fin. Equals no turbulence?

sboardcrazy
NSW, 8225 posts
7 Mar 2018 10:16AM
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I probably do have other gybing footage with another fin but haven't had the chance to look at it all yet..ugh..got to work sometime....Sounds like it's normal though?
I found the 24cm FF a bit big that day and was bogging down in the gybes on the weedy side.That spot had patchy wind earlier which didn't help things as the wind increased it was getting better .
I think I only got one decent full planing gybe on that side and that was as the wind increased..but then I had to go to drive home..
If I had stayed I would have put the 80ltre and 20cmmFF on and I'm sure that would have fixed the problem..



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