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Agree, love my freeride / swell chasing windfoil, such fun. Will I wing?, quite possibly but not at the moment. Downwinding and parawinging has probably pushed foil development the most recently. Chasing the magic combination of glide and turning. It wasn't long ago that a surf foil had no glide and a glide foil didn't turn but now designers have learned how to do both and the foils are getting better and better..

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sheddweller said..

stehsegler said..

sheddweller said..
Sails are a lot more complicated than boards.

beg to differ

Why?

Why are sails more compltcated than boards??? You are creating a 3D shape from 2D materials. They are dynamic and need to change shape when the loads change while remaining stable. You are dealing with materials that have different stretch characteristics.
Wave sails not so complex but try designing a wide sleeve race sail....
Boards are pretty easy to design.....yes clearly alot of knowledge and experience required to create an excellent shape but as a pure design exercise a sail is more challenging to get right.
I have designed both multiple times and that is my experience...

My prediction for 2026

Windsurfers continue to jump to winging. As they improve on the wing they will spend less and less time on fin and many will give up fin all together. I see it happen all the time.
Windfoilers will also jump to wing..both freeride and racing. If it were not for iQ foil being an Olympic sport windfoil racing would be in trouble.
Freeride windfoil will become even more niche, manufacturers will dump it as the market is not there.
Wingers in windier / wavier places will jump to parawing....its the hot thing at the moment.

It would be interesting to do a board more like a mid length wing board, longer and narrower but the length out the back. Could be a great lightwind board as the displacement speed would be higher making it easier to get on foil...

For my weight and age the size is good.....if I wanted it to foil earlier I would go narrower for sure but i didn't want it to be too hard for me to uphaul in chop...

We have had some solid SW winds and more coming in the next few days. 20-30 knots and up to 1.5 meter steep wind swell. I am loving the board and having so much fun....

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No coming back for me, and my knees love it!!!

First ride of my new Mark OZ custom board yesterday. This board is a subtle development of the last one, same length, width and rocker with the difference being the volume distribution, a touch more V in the front and more aggressively tucked under rails. With the volume I added more in the nose to help slogging and uphauling ( and hopefully I can now tack it).
So yesterday it started light, struggling to get on foil and finished overpowed, there was also a fair leftover swell as it had been windy all night. Despite the subtlety of the changes I could notice the extra volume in the nose, it was more balanced slogging and when I got a gust I feel it did get up easier, whether the reduced wetted surface area of the flat part of the bottom due to the bevelled rails was a factor I am not sure but it did release well.
Its a keeper for sure and I am going to have lots of fun on this board.

It looks like One Ocean have released a couple of High aspect DW foils

www.oneoceansportsaustralia.com/one-foils/p/accelerate-dw-foil-wings

I am just wondering if anybody is using Axis foils for windfoil??