Kyeemagh, NSW, AU 10-18kt NE || 118 Manta, 8.6OD, 46T-Lab

It blew from quite early morning which was good cause it co-incided with low tide and less traffic on the water. Patchy but a little better than forecast. Berowne and Remi also in attendance.

Kyeemagh, foiling away with surprisingly few sailors.

Wind was shocking! Literally 2 to 18kts...

I got overtaken a few times... found out later the guys were on 130's and 8 or 8.5m sails.... while I was testing out a positively tiny 6.3! And still got massivley overpowered, and annoyingly underpowered too. 

My main goal for today wasto  improve gybing, which I managed to do. Wow, 15kt alpha, not bad for my foil! Best gybes might have been foiling the entire way (just) while most of my completed gybes ended 'on' the water, but still with positive lift from the foil, so assisted planning. These are pretty comfortable and not such a bad compromise technique actually.  

iSonic 121L 

Slingshot Foil

TRXI 6.3.

Oh and I tried the slingshot mounted more forward on the switch-blade. Didn't seem to help, just made the footstraps feel way to far back. 

It's fun watching the gybe tracks evolve on the KA72.com site!  https://www.ka72.com/Track/t/325286 

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Kyeemagh, NSW, AU

Exocet RS4 - Loftsails RB 7.8 - 39 fin

Wrong gear, crappy Easterly.