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What you can try:
less mast rake (if you can, 1.0 degree is pretty close to where it’ll sit naturally) if you’ve got a shim in on top of the mast, remove it.

bump the mast base (sail) back in the track. Thats possibly what the problem actually is given what you’ve said. The tuning can be finite once you start to dial it in, but for now , move it a decent amount, say 1cm + it should make lift off and staying up much easier. Moving it forward will help to keep the lift the foil gives you in check. Too far forward and the rig weight and down force from the sail will hold the board down.

also try the age old tip of…. More downhaul. Too tight a leech at the top of the sail will also counter your pumping efforts, and hold the nose down on certain points of sail.

is there weed where you sail? What you’ve described is what it feels like when you catch some.

its a bit counter intuative, but bigger boards are actually harder to pop onto the foil than smaller ones. Its what they can do once on the foil that they come into their own.

edit: some of the above might sound simplistic/stuff you’ve already encountered if you’ve been foiling for a while, but the importance of it all amplifies when you’re on a bigger board/higher aspect foil than freeride.

Provided you can generate the initial energy required to get on the foil, you could use a plank of wood. Research the quaint sport "water skiing".

obviously you'll want a piece of wood a bit wider than what they use, but you'll get the idea. 35L is already well below what will float your body weight unless you're 5yrs old.

gs12 said..
if you have skills that AI can use, just create an account here:

rentahuman.ai/

I think we are somewhat already here. People planting questions on forums/bookface etc so ai can generate better answers/responses.

i'm willing to place a bet that a lot of wind/watersports answers from ai come from seabreeze.

Yeah, I hope they realise what they've created. It is a bit of a worry if its already at the self preservation stage.

Let's say we don't get skynet though. The job losses will be gradual, gradual enough that there will be no planning around the fact that whole sectors of industry will see massive job losses, humans will be redundant, but not suddenly enough that anyone has do anything about it. Do we all just turn destitute? I'd kinda like to know there's a grand plan for what the human race does when next to no one needs to clock in anymore.

Im sure everybody has had a bit of a think about this.


AI if you listen to those in the "know" is going to take over somewhat comprehensively. Where does that leave us?

Hows the industry you work in looking? I can see some getting wiped out, others i think the take over is going to be near impossible.

Obelix said..
The black one with orange it is.
Bought it SH.
Not sure which shop used to sell them. Or which one sells them now.
Anyone can help?

Jesper is who was selling them originally here in WA

I am constantly in awe of the ability of these highly intelligent people to make the discoveries they have, and are still making.

But i find it somewhat perplexing that they think they can put numbers on the likelhood/timeline of the human race destroying itself like its a measurable maths equation.

Summers here are great. Winters can be quite dismal though. Might get a sail in a fortnight if lucky.

the weather will treat you better North of say Geraldton.

He seems confused.

Mast foot is your foot closest to the mast (front foot). what he's referring to is mast base pressure. They are two different things which will produce different results when described properly to a learner.

Pretty sure you've just posted in the wrong section accidentally, but

a: they don't always get the measurement right

b. If you're using a different manufacturers boom then they do sometimes do the measurement from different points.