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Don't know if I've posted this before but a while ago there was a fishing line caught on a channel marker and with what I suspect was a large lump of weed on the other end. It was quite a long doubled over line under tension.

People warned me about it being out there and I didn't worry too much. Then I managed to run into it which also I thought was okay I'll just swim away.

Then I looked down and the line had hooked into the zip on my life jacket and wouldn't come out. At this stage my board was now out of reach for me so I'm now bobbing around hooked to a fishing line by my life jacket with my board drifting away. In the short decision time I had I took off my life jacket and left that.

Swam to my board and sailed back to the beach then realized my car keys we in the life jacket. Found another sailor on the beach with a knife he could lend me. I then sailed back out found the fishing line by running into and worked my way up to where my life jacket was and tried to get the life jacket off it. In the end I cut the line.

Fishing line even without hooks can be dangerous. This must have been 100s of metres of line. I felt i should have tried to bring it in but once i cut it it became like a cloud and i could see my foil or me getting stuck in it again. Eventually most of it would have washed into the beach with whatever was on the end of it i guess.

If you were going to try for a smaller volume high wind board what do you think of making the same board shape but narrower. Or would you scale the whole shape down. Sounds like you're happy with that size even for high wind. I have the old (maybe v0) board and loving it. Went back to the slingshot wizard for a short time while the moz was drying out after some damage and actually was enjoying that. It was a bit easier but very different geometry.

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Gestalt said..
So I'm curious,

is 2026 the year you all come back to the fin side!

fin, fin, fin, fin..

Foils are just horizontal fins.

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Gestalt said..
So I'm curious,

is 2026 the year you all come back to the fin side!

fin, fin, fin, fin..

Foils are just horizontal fins.