Need advice to make the board fly on fin.
Stopped wingfoiling, want to try speed freeride for lightwinds. Never used slalom board or cammed sails before so got a freerace board, tried it today with a wave sail, boards nose was sticking a lot when sail was not powered up, it was ok when powered. Footstraps are back, mast track all the way back, boom 5cm higher than my normal.95lt 61cm, 32cm g10, 5.5m, 16-18kt, 62kg
I am planning to get a 6.0 freerace sail as well, but i am a bit confused, would that sail would make it stick even more?
Or should i change the fin? In what way?
Thanks in advance
You cannot tell much from using a wavesail. A proper race sail will have a more locked in feeling and provide more backfoot pressure etc. Everything moved well back is the way to, then raise the boom to reduce the mastfoot pressure etc. You will always need a high speed to fly of the fin, fairly flat water and a good enough fin etc. On a 95 liter board I don't think that you will fly off the fin until you are above at least 25knots, and then it only gets better from there, lean back and enjoy the ride!
Oh, and be careful with wingfoilers, you will sail much faster than them and they do need a fair bit of safety distance. More so than with other windsurfers, in my experience.
If you sail in deep enough water for a straight fin, get a carbon fin. Yes you need a 3-4 cammed sail with low foot for speed.
I use a twin cam on my 90ltre freerace..
I like the way it holds it's shape off the breeze. 😛
I don't like the way the breeze can catch the profile and blow it away once you fall off.🙄
From memory are you mainly wavesailing….
if you are mostly used to wave boards then you could be putting too much pressure through your front foot..to get the board to fly you need to put more pressure through your back foot.
wave sail is fine, mast base doesn’t need to be at back of track. You really just need to be planing and put more pressure against the fin with your back foot.. opposite to wave boards with smaller fins.
you want to move your weight back so you have the last 20-30cm of the board skipping across the water once planing. At that point the board will free up and accelerate.
in the past when i was sailing formula i used to have issues switching back and forth to wave gear due to spinout from overloading the wave board fins. Same problem but the other way around.
Select to expand quotepowersloshin said..
If you sail in deep enough water for a straight fin, get a carbon fin. Yes you need a 3-4 cammed sail with low foot for speed.
Nothing wrong with g10 fins for recreational use. I have a 32 cm g10 fin here, and a no cam sail. Would have wanted a smaller ca 95 litres board (instead of the 116 L):
