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 Topic: choosing board volume relative to neutral buoyancy |
watermonkey
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 Forum: Windsurfing Discussion Posted: Mon May 18, 2020 1:29 am Subject: choosing board volume relative to neutral buoyancy |
| I'll stick with my 95 then. Doesn't sound like the tradeoff in underpowered is worth it. I'm generally well powered (or slightly over) on a 5.5 with that board. I should downsize to a 5.0 and just ... |
| Topic: choosing board volume relative to neutral buoyancy |
watermonkey
Replies: 30
Views: 46028
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Forum: Windsurfing Discussion Posted: Sun May 17, 2020 1:05 pm Subject: choosing board volume relative to neutral buoyancy |
| I'm currently on a 95L board with total weight of me(dry) + gear + rig at ~83kg. I was thinking of going down to an 85L board but wondering if it will make that much of a difference in control in wel ... |
| Topic: streamlined boom head clamping |
watermonkey
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Forum: Windsurfing Discussion Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2018 2:46 pm Subject: streamlined boom head clamping |
| I have one of the black-strap standard Streamlined boom heads on an older HPL boom. It's always been a hassle to get the clamping of the mast correct...I often have a gap right where the strap latche ... |
| Topic: weight-forward pre-approach |
watermonkey
Replies: 106
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Forum: Windsurfing Discussion Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2015 2:29 pm Subject: weight-forward pre-approach |
| watermonkey, when are we going to see another video that focuses on you performing your typical jibes? It would be good to shoot and capture your jibes on both starboard and port. Carving a quick po ... |
| Topic: weight-forward pre-approach |
watermonkey
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Forum: Windsurfing Discussion Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2015 6:46 pm Subject: weight-forward pre-approach |
The rest of the time on a beam reach this is how your stance should look like mostly on this kind of a board /sorry for the bad quality/
That's the stance I've had in my mind so thanks for postin ... |
| Topic: weight-forward pre-approach |
watermonkey
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Forum: Windsurfing Discussion Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2015 11:49 am Subject: weight-forward pre-approach |
| WM...buy some 28" lines, position the boom at armpit height, and then mount some DaKine contour straps loose. The length of your lines has nothing to do with sailing sheeted in, and sailing so c ... |
| Topic: weight-forward pre-approach |
watermonkey
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Forum: Windsurfing Discussion Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2015 11:25 am Subject: weight-forward pre-approach |
Man, I hate it when I can't say what I mean.  Let's see if I can manage it on a second pass...
My opening bit there was addressing the disagreement some of you had over a few points. It doesn' ... |
| Topic: weight-forward pre-approach |
watermonkey
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Forum: Windsurfing Discussion Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2015 12:05 am Subject: weight-forward pre-approach |
| I'm (always) looking for whatever input people are willing to offer...call it what you like. The other thing is that this sport is seemingly full of fine-level adjustments that can make a big differe ... |
| Topic: weight-forward pre-approach |
watermonkey
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Forum: Windsurfing Discussion Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 11:16 am Subject: weight-forward pre-approach |
| It seems to me that your stance is kind a stiff and forced, definitely not relaxed and definitely lacking fluidity. The background could be a fear of some sort which makes you gripping the boom hard a ... |
| Topic: Gopro flymount |
watermonkey
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Forum: Windsurfing Discussion Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 10:30 am Subject: Gopro flymount |
| I'm just using the thin leash that came with the flymount...I think you'd need a pretty good-sized float to support both the weight of the flymount and the camera, which you may not want hanging off t ... |
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