Foiling fun Holloways Beach Cairns
One of the advantages of foiling is that the apparent wind builds early and the increased speed and reduced drag means you achieve lift off in much lighter winds. I am 93kg and normally sail a 12m kite and need 14 plus knots to really get moving. On the foil I am underway at 8-10 knots of wind and using an 8m kite - often depowered (so I could go smaller but do not have one...).
To the kite sailors looking at this blog all this will make sense. The rest will just have to put up with my enthusiasm for another challenge which helps 'feed the rat'.
docgav on 09.12.16 @ 08:51 PM EST [link]
I realise this blog is on my multihull books site but with the advent of foiling and the incredible footage and speeds achieved by the big time foilers I had to give it ago - mayhap with only one hull and one foil. It is, simply put, sensational. The speed, the lack of sound, that smooth slicing over the waves, has to be experienced to be appreciated. To get the the level of smooth, wakeless gliding it has taken about 15 hours of crashing and bashing. Fortunately no injures but tired muscles and salt reddened eyes.