fangy (22667km):
1755 days ago 1 categories Yunbas with CrimsonSplash for an arvo of fun and games. Very surprised to have it to ourselves. Dan was absolutely smashing it out and I was just following him around making him look good. Post more later.
Yunbas had a big tide and no really flat stuff, but plenty of water and wind to play in. Dan was fearless and chased the big downhill bullet after bullet and I think, racked up a PB on his first Yunbas run. I tried all my thin foil variations of fangy fins. The 24 showed the most promise, but disconcerting let go easily when running downhill in chop with the fin at a low angle of attack. On my last run of the day, I used the production FF22. It behaved faultlessly and continues to be the standard.
I was overpowered on the Koncept 6.6 and once again should have rigged smaller as I could not use the power in the sail 99% of the time. I am hoping that one day the message will sink in and I will rig smaller in these denser winter winds.
I used the Windtech SB64, and throughout the afternoon progressively dialled the tail back to full floppy. The board was great. The sail was too big and the modified skinny foil fangyfins too unforgiving in the chop. Note to self, dig out my longer weedies and enjoy the deep water downhills at speed on the SB64.
The water was cold, the wind was strong, the runs long and Dan was inspirational with the big cojones, equals Top Ten Fangy day.
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