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Topic: Forty foot waves |
keycocker
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Forum: Southwest USA, Hawaii, Mexico Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2017 3:51 pm Subject: Forty foot waves |
Amateur surfers launch there with nothing these days. The wave is so fast that the ones who survive the rocks cant usually paddle into it, so that saves them.Maybe he lost his fin on those same rocks ... |
Topic: Forty foot waves |
keycocker
Replies: 14
Views: 34343
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Forum: Southwest USA, Hawaii, Mexico Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2017 9:03 pm Subject: Forty foot waves |
Just gusting in the low forties at Kihei, but over fifty on Oahu. |
Topic: alternate foil ?? |
keycocker
Replies: 27
Views: 65924
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Forum: Windsurfing Discussion Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2017 1:24 pm Subject: alternate foil ?? |
I have a pic of Karen Baxter mother of Connor ,sailing a foil like yours in 1982 at an event. It had too much lift in back so they fitted a similar foil on the front. It worked in limited wind range f ... |
Topic: Forty foot waves |
keycocker
Replies: 14
Views: 34343
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Forum: Southwest USA, Hawaii, Mexico Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2017 1:03 pm Subject: Forty foot waves |
Forty foot faces predicted for Maui to day. |
Topic: Maui kanaha beach park SNAFU |
keycocker
Replies: 4
Views: 14354
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Forum: Southwest USA, Hawaii, Mexico Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2016 1:37 pm Subject: Maui kanaha beach park SNAFU |
They are considering park fees for visitors and tour groups, starting with Kanaha. |
Topic: best fin box for hitting obstacles |
keycocker
Replies: 13
Views: 25237
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Forum: Windsurfing Discussion Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2016 1:03 pm Subject: best fin box for hitting obstacles |
Remember the fanatic and mistral trim box with four holes in the fin so the bolt could go in four places, moving the box forward?
We sailed far offshore among reefs with those boxes. Several broke a ... |
Topic: Euro Pin vs. US Mast Base systems? |
keycocker
Replies: 28
Views: 61397
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Forum: Southwest USA, Hawaii, Mexico Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2016 1:06 pm Subject: Euro Pin vs. US Mast Base systems? |
Our gear is stored next to the sea. The last of our guys using a euro pin quit when the second one snapped off from point corrosion at the base. When one of the pins breaks in the same way on a us bas ... |
Topic: Euro Pin vs. US Mast Base systems? |
keycocker
Replies: 28
Views: 61397
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Forum: Southwest USA, Hawaii, Mexico Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2016 12:58 pm Subject: Euro Pin vs. US Mast Base systems? |
We had trouble confirming the engaging click sound with a euro pin if the break is noisy. It is easy to feel the us pins engaging correctly. No big deal n a lake but big surf..... |
Topic: Kanaha Weird Wave |
keycocker
Replies: 16
Views: 35590
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Forum: Southwest USA, Hawaii, Mexico Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2016 4:03 pm Subject: Kanaha Weird Wave |
MG
An old tako fisherman said the rubble from the Corps work was washed up in the shallow inside over the years, blocking that area. |
Topic: Lightwind kit for experienced lightweight sailor |
keycocker
Replies: 14
Views: 25886
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Forum: Windsurfing Discussion Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2016 12:42 pm Subject: Lightwind kit for experienced lightweight sailor |
75 kilos is not a light sailor in the design world. Much gear is designed with 80
kilos as the target weight of the average user. |
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