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Reply in Topic: How did we get here

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24 Feb 2026 8:47pm

Why do you keep starting these threads?

You'll be joining remery in the sin bin soon.

Reply in Topic: Is there any flattish water in Mandurah where you don't need a delta?

We headed to Coodanup today, Anita very kindly lent one of her Fangy fins to try out, which worked a treat in the shallows. She did warn me not to lay on too much back foot pressure, but in all honesty it didn't feel much different to one of my usual weed speeds. Did eventually put the 27 weed speed back in as the tide came up and that worked out ok, but had to stay a bit further offshore, so missed out on the flat water gravy runs all the delta sailors were getting.

I think my friends and I are going to make more trips down there now we've tried it. So we're going to have to invest in some delta type fins. Anyone got some they're looking to move on?

PS: sorry Mark, no nasty groundings today. You'll have to give me some more time to line some work up for you.

Reply in Topic: Is there any flattish water in Mandurah where you don't need a delta?

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20 Feb 2026 10:18pm

Ha ha, thanks Mark. I'll come see you when I'm out of hospital.

Topic: Is there any flattish water in Mandurah where you don't need a delta?

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3384 posts

20 Feb 2026 7:31pm

Yeah, i know there won't be any ultra flat spots, but is there anywhere where a 27+ weedy will suffice on a seabreeze?

Reply in Topic: 90 or 100 % carbon mast ?

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3384 posts

19 Feb 2026 8:09pm

Yeah RDM is a different kettle of fish, as someone who sails SDM/race sails, i'd worry a lot less about snapping an RDM in a freeride sail. I'd say knock your self out and go the red.

Reply in Topic: Pete... you were right!

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19 Feb 2026 7:55pm

Petey can't get to the phone right now, he's too busy racing other windsurfers on the river who don't know they're in a race.

please leave a message after the tone..,

Reply in Topic: 90 or 100 % carbon mast ?

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3384 posts

19 Feb 2026 7:51pm

Not tried them yet, but maybe you can have the best of both masts now:

www.severnesails.com/masts/apex-team/

apex pro (100%) is great performance wise, but durability wise you're better off with the Apex (90%)

Reply in Topic: Silly foil setups

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3384 posts

19 Feb 2026 7:06am

Ok
now i understand a bit better what you're trying to do i wouldn't bother. Bout the only thing it'll give you is a bit more float in the lulls when you're not going. And thats really only of help if you weigh enough to need it.

right forum thread though

Reply in Topic: Silly foil setups

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3384 posts

16 Feb 2026 8:50pm

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YellowHelmet said..

I learned the IQ youth 85 cm 153 liter has a stronger construction than the more fragile IQ senior 95 cm 196 liter. The latter seems really big to me.

i've no idea of the construction in the IQ youth board, but willing to believe it possibly is given the construction on the senior board

Both seem to be suited for windsurfing as well, or is this more theoretical ?

The original idea was that the high wind races (IQ) would be sailed with a fin, so the boards were somewhat designed with the ability to be sailed with a fin. I believe the iq kit originally came supplied with a fin. As history tells, the racers didn't like the idea, and just got better at foiling in high winds instead. So yeah, usable as a fin board, but heavily orientated to course racing on the foil.

Having no experience with bigger boards than Wizard 125 or 114 I ask myself :

- Does the larger surface help to get on foil because of more buoyancy > speed or does it makes the board stick more to the water due to capillarity, or is this effect counter compensated by the buoyancy ?

nup. I can get my smaller windfoiling board to pop much easier than my formula foil board. Even when there's plenty of wind for the big board, it's harder to get on the foil than the smaller board when it's under done. The extra width is much more about controlling the foil and driving it upwind/downwind/maximizing angles

- Is PTM926 a good foil for such a board, or do I need smaller (or bigger ?) surface and/or higher aspect ratio.

PTM? Phantom? Course race foil? If so then yes, will work. If it's not their course race foil, it'll still work, but it'll have a reduced ability to climb on the angles that a course race foil will. What you want is a longer fuse (equivalent to the iq 115+) and a 900+ highish aspect front wing

- The boards are 215 cm / 220 cm. Does this makes a problem for swingweight compared to the shorter Levitator V2 160 liter 200 cm.

will you feel a difference? Maybe. Will it be a problem? No, not really. You'll bump the mast track around a bit and find the happy spot for it to be. And that'll more than likely be that. It won't be an insurmountable problem.

My main objective is to drop the low wind limit to 10 knots or even lower using Foilglide3 7 and 8 m.

Provided you're not 100+kg, Yep, doable. You'll be on the 8m, and will more than likely have to pump to get up, but you'll keep going once up.

Maximum speed is not an aim, flying is the purpose.

Here nearly every body is wingfoiling and experienced riders start at 8 knots with narrow mid sized boards using 5 m 5 or even 4 m 5 with high aspect wings, mostly Gong.

Would like to catch up with them. Think my Wizard will not do it or is it because of me ?

Wingfoilers are getting faster and more efficient gear now. They have to be on the right gear, but there are a couple of them here that go up against the local IQ foilers, and it's more a question of are they better at doing the wing foiling than the iq foiler is at iq foiling as to who will win. Not like a couple of years ago when the gear meant they had no chance. I guess it's down to how the wing foilers are where you are. Are they on the race gear? It's like for like. If they're on the race gear and know how to use it, and you aren't then it's going to be a bit more of a mission to match up with them.

Reply in Topic: Board repair thoughts?

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3384 posts

12 Feb 2026 5:37am

I'd open it up and see whats going on sooner rather than later. My mates windsurf board ballooned on the bottom, caused by a smaller delam about the size of a post it note. Theres a lot more volume in a windsurf board, but yeah. It only took some heat and 10 seconds and that was it for the board. He didn't know the delam was there, but it was evident when he cut the big delam away to see what had happened.

Reply in Topic: Board repair thoughts?

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3384 posts

11 Feb 2026 5:46pm

If problem B appeared all by itself after problem A happened a while ago, i'd say that warrants some further investigation.

Reply in Topic: Cracks in Board - do I need to fix?

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3384 posts

9 Feb 2026 7:48pm

Pretty sure its the wood veneer suffering from age/water ingress, then drying out. Standard problem with the wood boards around that age, definitely do something to help it, as to what, i'll let one of the board repairers jump in on that.

Reply in Topic: New FTY custom

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3384 posts

9 Feb 2026 5:58pm

Agree, that paint job looks frggin awesome! good to see you back out on the water.

Reply in Topic: Friday forecast

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6 Feb 2026 8:26pm

Agree. Had a nice 20knot session on the river.

Reply in Topic: Friday forecast

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5 Feb 2026 7:31pm

Reply in Topic: Friday forecast

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5 Feb 2026 7:28pm

If i didn't know better i'd say they've gone their separate ways. Seabreeze used to follow the BOM predicted temps (at least) seabreeze has fri being 35 degrees, bom has it at 24 degrees.

Reply in Topic: Impact Vest

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3384 posts

30 Jan 2026 9:42pm

Impact vest, or lifejacket/floaty impact vest?
if purely impact vest then i would be searching for a hard type that'll fit better with a waist harness, if you want the floaty type then its going to be a compromise between having it cover the surface area to to give you the protection, and not having it turn you into tommy turtle whilst hooked in.

i'm a waist harness wearer as well, and i haven't been able to find anything to date that i'm truly happy to wear whilst sailing. Things go better for the seat harness people i suspect. its particularly annoying in WA (i think its Australia wide?) since we are technically required to wear a pfd pretty much everywhere once over 400m from shore.

i currently use a forward whip (latest model) pfd when i absolutely have to. its probably the closest ive been to happy. I see vakobi have a new much higher slim pfd that might be better

Reply in Topic: foil construction, can i chop ends?

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3384 posts

27 Jan 2026 9:53am

I generally find trashed/repaired gear is always faster. The bad has already happened, so no smash the gear fear.

Reply in Topic: F4Foils Tuning Tips - Towards 30 knots!

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3384 posts

22 Jan 2026 6:23am

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Manilo said..

berowne said..
Manilo 25kt on a big foil - I only managed about 25/26 on my F4 course racing foils, but it has kind of fallen out of favour around here.

Agree with subsonic, leverage helps. Short of this, railing the board so you can control the lift,... because you need power to point but then it isn't as easy to control off the wind. Let us know how you go!

Yes I think I have room to improve a bit still on downwinds. Railing more to Windward and trying to keep the apparent wind. A friend (one of the big fast guys) told me to hang more over out of the board, not just hang below the boom. Take my body out, like when going upwind.

Yep, thats solid advice. Hanging under the boom you loose all your forwards/backwards mobility because you're all crouched up over the board.

Reply in Topic: F4Foils Tuning Tips - Towards 30 knots!

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21 Jan 2026 12:26pm

A lot.
It's one of the basic phenomena that exists across all windsurf disciplines. Weight and height = more control/speed on bigger kit.
As a smaller rider on course race gear I find the best thing I can do is try to out point them upwind/downwind.

Reply in Topic: Eye shut or eyes open

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18 Jan 2026 10:37pm

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Surfing Uk said..

Kit3kat said..

jn1 said..
It can cause panick K3K. But yes, good evolutionary reflex. Especially coming off +35kt on a stinky lake. Water tends to jet under the eye balls at that speed, and end up with pink eye for a few days. So harder shut the better IMO.

maybe im a bit more resilient because of kitesurfing (usually when you get teabagged a bit/dragged under water with modern kites it's best to try and stay calm and wait under water for 5-10 seconds, holding your breath, and keeping your eyes closed until everything settles rather than try and paniccontrol the kite which just burns oxygen and makes you breathless.

When I get burried by the rig I ust accept that, stay calm, then surface. If my head hits the sail i just go back under, tilt my neck back and just move my mouth up under the sail then breathe in. Then I have a bit of a feel to see where the boom/sail is and then surface next to the rig. If you hold onto the boom at all times you are well oriented anyway.

Contrary to popular belief not having a breath in before you submerge makes no difference - the primary purpose behind breathing in is to breathe out co2, not have more oxygen which does not make you less breathless anyway. If this is a real big issue then it's probably better to do some co2 retention exercises i.e. holding your breath for a bit while using the computer.

That's interesting that you can breath under the sail like that , I just assumed it was impossible and you had to get out to one side. There has certainly been a couple of panic moments and more so if I'm still in my harness.
seems like everyone has there eyes shut under the water until there head is out though.

Maybe there's some air trapped under the sail that you could breath in, maybe. I don't think I'd be burning time looking for it with my mouth, just pick a direction and swim.

Reply in Topic: Foiling in 2026

Subsonic

3384 posts

18 Jan 2026 6:54pm

Y'all need to move to WA.

Sometimes in summer you have to give yourself a lay day to let your footstrap wounds heal a bit, and let your fingers stretch back to straight.

its hard to resist, especially with windfoiling now too, but sometimes its got to be done.

Reply in Topic: Eye shut or eyes open

Subsonic

3384 posts

18 Jan 2026 11:34am

It is the panic that's the problem. Yes you have ample air in your lungs to find the edge of the sail, which ever way you go, but it's easy to lose calm when you suddenly feel trapped and you can't see.

Reply in Topic: Eye shut or eyes open

Subsonic

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18 Jan 2026 7:06am

I shut my eyes as well, because i wear contacts. But i always keep at least one hand on the boom so i know where the rig is and what its doing. If you manage to land with it in the right spot it can flip on you. Nothing like going for the surface and finding its all just sail above you when you start feeling around.

Reply in Topic: SailGP Perth

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16 Jan 2026 6:04am

We had a watch on wed from North mole, quite a good viewing spot actually. But they've closed that now. I think you've gotta have paid to get close from here on in.

Reply in Topic: Nearly hooked... but not in a good way

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14 Jan 2026 10:58am

Run over by a boat is my biggest fear. Just the thought of going under one.

i've been hooked on the foil twice before, first time I didn't realize it had happened till I got to shore and saw the line gouge mark in the foil and realized the sluggish behaviour whilst foiling id experienced earlier was because I was towing a line. Second time I had to go closish behind a boat because of other traffic, didn't even register the idiots we're trawling. I did recognise the sluggish porpoising sensation after a few seconds, but decided not to stop.

Reply in Topic: Balancing boards with weights

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3384 posts

13 Jan 2026 8:36pm

Feel free to ignore a wind foilers opinion if you want, but the usual quick fix for a nose that wants to dive is what Mr Fish said, shim the stabilizer for more lift.

Not sure if the foil brand you use has there own shim system, but you can use an appropriately sized stainless washer or shaved down piece/s of plastic ice cream container to do the job. Bonus of the ice cream container is you'll have a tub of ice cream that needs eating before you can use the lid.

ultimately longer tracks one way or another are the proper fix.

Reply in Topic: SailGP Perth

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11 Jan 2026 11:44pm

Thanks for that. I'd imagine they're going to make it as hard as possible to watch live if you've not paid for tickets. I'll probably be watching it on tv unless some miracle happens.
Just wanted to know how crazy its going to get.

Reply in Topic: SailGP Perth

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10 Jan 2026 11:25am

Anyone in the know how far into bathers beach are they running? I'd presume it'll be the start/finish zone, and won't be right in? No room in there for manoeuvres on a GP 50 at 30/40knots plus, let alone a number of them.

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