Foiling on a gusty day at the lake

[dvCali]

[dllee]

You guys, except for Coachg, are all dreaming.
And searching hard to justify foils while looking for those perfect foiling conditions.
While those conditions DO exist, like 7-17 mph breezes, they are just basically really crappy wind conditions.
Now if you always seek those kinds of winds, then FOILING IS KING!
I say again, foils work great in crap breezes!
I might be the absolute worse 26 day foiler ever, but I'm out there with some of the best foilers on the West Coast so I do see the potential for having fun on days too light or too gusty/hoooley for windsurfing.
I hope not all days have grappy winds.

[dllee]

I stake claim as the slowest foiler, Naish setup.
However, when I windsurf with the fastest foilers, which actually never really happens because they are course slalom while I'm reaching, they cannot keep up with me, while I cannot approach their angles. Get it?

[NOVAAN]

So sit on the beach in the "crappy" conditions or learn at fun new wind sport and turn lite gusty lake winds into a easy and fast day on the water day. You throw stones at my post and tell me how wrong I am but you weren't there. There at least 15 highly skilled windsurfer's that saw what I saw that will back up my claim. Most of us sail lite "crappy" winds on some obscure lake and foiling has changed the meaning of a great day on the water.

[dllee]

Maybe your sailors should get lightwind gear.
Not a 136 X-cite ride.
A good foiler on 5 meter sail is similar to a good windsurf on a 7 meter sail.
Foiler has better angles. Ws more speed and can carve g force jibes.
Now if you compare Ws using non planing jibe skills, and using expert foiler...

[dllee]

..and Dave V....
I saw you all stoked up on foiling early spring, yet you always complain about light winds.
And now you extoll the virtues of foiling again.
Are you going to foil? Or just talk about how great it is.
Me, it's gray. I can sorta foil, not like KK or anyone with 70+ days [suspect KK is a phenom, like Wyatt], but I still windsurf to 3 to one.

[d0uglass]

Here in SW Florida we don't have to "seek" crap winds because crap winds are all we get for most of the year. Foiling is the most interesting and highest performance type of sailing we can do in our typical seabreezes that barely reach 10 knots.

[dllee]

That would account for my skewered thoughts.
Berkeley blows around 12-22 5 days a week, and I get to the beach 7 days a week.

[grantmac017]

In the Seattle race series which allows any WS equipment on windward leeward courses the winning is split between raceboards and foils depending on the night. Before foils it was rare for a formula setup to win although many tried.
For that area foils are a revolution and many people are regularly going faster than 25kts on setups that also make great VMG upwind.

For me it's more about a playful setup that is can carve without dumping energy. I could care less about speed.

[boardsurfr]