I am wondering if any of you can shed some light on a problem I am having,
I can use my daily foil set with a variety of wing boards and it works fine. Pumping up, riding, foiling, all good.
My back foot is almost always over the front edge of the mast and front foot about 50cm further forward.
I use the same foil set on my 7'10" x 2-0" 118 litre downwind board and I have to put my back foot 20-30cm further forward. With my feet in this position it all works well, but it's a long way forward on the board.
If my back foot is a even a touch further back when I pump the foil rears up, stalls and drops down. Sometimes I can fight to push the down and it might continue for a bit, then roll over and crash.
The mast is as far back on the tracks as it will go. The big difference us that on most boards the mast and foot position works, and on the long skinny board the foot position has to be a lot further forward.
The problem doesn't happen if I accelerate on the surface then ease the board smoothly off the water. My suspicion is that the downwind board comes up too easy with aggressive pumping and needs more speed to ride away.
The board is also perfectly happy once on the foil and I can move my feet around.
