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jiingebritsen: What is a Chicken strap? never heard of that .

Lrrry: Slingshot has a short masted foil which is good for you, wait another month or so and they will have windsurf foil too. We will ...

formula at first with a chicken strap

Would you use the chicken strap most of the time, or just going downwind?

This foiling for the older crowd has me interested, as that's where I am.

Normally a light wind, big sail sailor, the foiling in light wind looks like fun.

What would the experts recommend for a ...

Foils are 40" deep, so you need at least 42" of water depth when fully planing along.
They attach to DEEP Tuttle box, which you have.
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Zirtaeb,

Foiling will be a challeng ...

Irry, almost any Formula racer or expert will tell you that an 11 doesn't plane up sooner than a 10, because pumping is less efficient with 11 and 12 meter sails. The only gain in a 11 or 12 meter sa ...

personally find that to be too low a wind for fun on any board
typically 10 knots or about 20 kph winds are my wind minimum
that way you are much less likely to be skunked completely
have gone out ...

Coachg,

Good comments, I need some work on that a bit. Thx!

In those conditions, in fact in most all conditions, I try to get upwind right off the bat, just in case something breaks, or the wind dies.

The only time that I would sail downwind originally is i ...

I just bought a JP Superlight, Gold 165, and have a 11.0 Aerotech Rapid Fire sail to go with it. Just barely getting used to it, and had it out the other day in extremely light winds... perhaps 7 kts ...

All,

I did pick up a JP Superlight, and have a 11.0 Aerotech Rapid Fire sail to go with it. Just barely getting used to it, waiting for some wind. (Have another thread on this set up).