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I wish I had a couple of different % masts sitting around to notice how much I felt the difference with the same sails...

But one thing that I did find out, talking to some local really good IQFoilers was that they would get a few of the 90% 530s and would sort through them by feel to find the best one. They felt the difference in individual masts.

I don't know if the youth iq came with a fin but I've used the adult iq with a fin and it's... ok in desperation when the tide is too low to foil but quite awkward. I don't like it in fin mode that much and in higher winds I'd rather add rake and foil because it feels safer and I have more upwind/downwind options.

Never used it with the ptm. I do feel the difference in board swing weight between my 115 freestyle and it but that's a much smaller board

I also ran a jackplate with a foilx 145. It worked but it also tended to collect weeds at the front.

1 - definitely talk to local shop/locals
2 - with a sailing background I taught myself and eventually got lessons long after. I could get around, planing, basic foiling even, but I was doing things very inefficiently and it was inhibiting my progress until I took some lessons
3 - IF you get a beginner kit after all that, including lessons, I would at least look into something like a windsup (unless your sup will take a mast) that can plane. I have an 11'8 exocet windsup that can plane and is still fun on windy days because it shoves its way through chop at about 20kts and is still good for practicing basic lightwind freestyle in like 5 kts with a small sail. i can still explore with a daggerboard in light stuff with it. It is actually a decent one board solution (except for foiling) because when I paddleboard, I use it too. It is just very heavy to carry around.

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SurferKris said..
Both the Moto and the NCX have four rollers in the sail, and hence they need three rollers in the extension. The designated RDM extension from Severne is labeled "Triple X".

Note that there is no "pin" to remove in these sails that would make them compatible with the Cyclops extension.

Aha, there's the difference

Largest I've used the cyclops on is a 6.7 blade. You have to remove the pin on the block otherwise the loop won't fit.

I feel less bad about my PBs on my 900 wing now.

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berowne said..

Hey WillyWing

I'm new to winging, and don't use the harness much yet (still sub-20kt top speed)... but I'm pretty sure racers load the harness up after pumping... especially upwind legs from what I understand.

Curious how you feel about winging vs. windfoil after getting into jumping and such on the wing.

What's funny with all the hype around winging is that I know of two people, who have never done windsports before.

Both of them decided to get into kiting within the last year. Not winging. Not windsurfing.

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philn said..
After my session I overheard a bodyboarder complaining to the lifeguard about a fisherman casting towards him. Probably a single dick gives all the fishermen a bad name.

Maybe we were dealing with the same guy

I winged on a 114 wizard for a bit with a slingshot foil setup, and it had some footstrap positions for winging on it but I never got to that point with winging. No clue on a parawing like that in high winds?

Once when absolutely clueless and struggling to waterstart on a beach, I kept getting swept downcurrent. Managed to hit a shark fisher's line, twice. Thankfully not the hook itself but I wasn't aware of it because of how far down the beach I was getting pulled due to my lack of skills.

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AusMoz said..
I will never use an aluminium boom ever again. The amount of crap expetiences of had with them ! Ending up in hospital for 4 days because of an aluminium boom isnt fun!

What happened?

I have a jp 102 just like the pics above. I end up riding the dyno 115 more because it's similar enough and the extra volume helps some in our light winds. The 102 is still a good board to me though. Also have a jp 120 xcite ride that I got my first planjng jibe on from that era of design.

I'd love to be primarily fin, but the wind here isn't good enough for much time on the water.

With how many different foil kits there were for a while, and many different hybrid/dedicated boards, seems like there have been a lot of different setups that work.

Here's something that seemed really silly to me and I almost didn't try. I had my 8.0 cheetah rigged because it was windy enough to fin, and I wanted to try using my select carbon slalom fin instead of a weed fin, as the weeds were actually tame. The difference was amazing, and I forgot what a real upright fin felt like on my Blast. The wind dropped off after an hour, and I had my freestyle 115 with me (and ptm 926), so I figured I would try it.

An 8.0 seems ridiculous. Normally I limit myself to the 7.0 foil glide, which is a bit difficult to uphaul on this board at my weight (over 95kg at the moment...), but very nice for light wind freeride. I have tried the 7.5 gator on it, but never the 8.0. It just seemed to big. But, it was rigged, I didn't have my foil glides (I mistakenly thought it would be windy enough for my freeks...yet again), and I didn't want to unrig just to rerig my 6.7 blade.

Well, it turns out it worked. I put it well forward of where I put the foil glide 7 or the freeks, because it's got a center of effort further back. I uphauled it once, sinking like crazy, but other than that just waterstarted when I fell in. It felt a bit awkward to pump, but it didn't need a whole lot of pumping. I think it would gust sometimes up to 15kts and I didn't feel like it was too out of hand, but I definitely felt the mast flex and the sail twist a lot compared to the foil glides. To sheet in I ha to move right out on the rail on both feet, which really put me outside of the straps. Jibing felt a bit awkward but it was sorta doable for my skill level.

Figured I would share it because it was kind of funny and a moment of desperation when I didn't have the ideal gear with me. A buddy got a video of me doing a side by side and jibe that I had a big touchdown on but kept going: