new foilboard

NOVAAN · Joined: 28 Sep 1994 Posts: 1551

Let us know how they compare

grantmac017 · Joined: 04 Aug 2016 Posts: 946

"Fun" for me is carving tiny wind swell like it's a powerful breaking wave. "Fun" is a small, playful rig that can both carve and rocket upwind. "Fun" is linking gusts on a lake you'd never plane across. "Fun is 5 sails and two boards covering 10kts to 35kts with no gaps.

I can't seem to measure "Fun" with a GPS or scale however.

NOVAAN · Joined: 28 Sep 1994 Posts: 1551

After 35 years of windsurfing, new fun is lite wind, 4.2 or 4.7 on a foil board.
Easy on the old bones too..

dllee · Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 5329 Location: East Bay

I kinda like foiling on a 5.2 in winds of 7-14 max.
Got one great day in 6-12 where the low actually gave enough to pump 12 times and get up.
Hate gusts of 20, even with a 4.0.

SergioKapul · Joined: 04 Apr 2014 Posts: 65

dllee · Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 5329 Location: East Bay

Add lack of skill, old age, still windsurf 3 to one, and not sold on foiling.
Today, powered 5.2 and 92 liters, dying to 3-10, rig foil and go out in that, get 10 short foiling runs, wind comes up to 7-16, foil for 10 runs and 2 hours watertime expires.

dllee · Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 5329 Location: East Bay

Was thinking of a few foiler friends of mine...
KevinK, at 195 lbs., uses a 4.2 in winds gusting to 22.
Carl, another foil jiber, uses 3.8 in gusts of 22.
In those gusts, course foilers use 6.2 cambered sails.
Different game, eh?
So hitting the bottom end, the course foilers are using 7.7 at around 6-13 mph breezes.
I, an admittedly bad foiler and 70 years of age, easily on 5.2 sail size in 6-13.
Which is better is up to discussion.