Picked up this wing last week, two outings already. Me, 80kg on a 78ltr Carbonco straight tail board on the Naish HA1040 foil. The wing needs 20knots to get going, once going it will handle lulls but it just doesn't make enough board speed to get up in less. Maybe a young grom will do better but at 56years I'll stick with over 20knots.
The wing comes with two options for boom length, the standard length or a short one which seems not currently available anywhere. I'm currently building a short carbon boom for it.
Pumping is rapid and not overly effective, better just use a bigger wing if you going to have to pump a lot. It's twitchy, easy to oversheet, just like a tiny kite, you just need to be gentle on your back hand, not to over sheet and stalling it. Once up and going there is little load on the arms, cruising up wind in the gusty lumpy conditions is so easy, no back winding at all. This is where these tiny wings shine, so easy to get back to your starting point to pick up another swell.
Once on a swell, well, just brilliant, it's almost as if it not there. If travelling straight downwind it can just hang from you hand, the clew is short so doesn't drag. If held with one hand on the boom while flagging you can give a little tweak with your wrist to power through a flat section.
Hopefully more shops start stocking the smaller sizes, this one was hard to find in Oz. Currently there is little choice in wing sizes under 3 mtr.
