Seabreeze please introduce orange arrows for kite foiling.
6kn to 13kn would suit me in orange.
Thanks

I've made those arrows green on my charts

THIS IS A FOILING CHART!

DM

Wednesday morning's yellow arrows would be my orange pick .

whats wrong with you guys? Big wind means tiny kite, like a 4. And a big wing. The chop when it's that windy is very fun!

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dafish said..
whats wrong with you guys? Big wind means tiny kite, like a 4. And a big wing. The chop when it's that windy is very fun!

True, high winds and small kites are still great fun, but 12 - 16kts means I get to use my favorite kite, a 9m Ozone Hyperlink, and that is my happy place. In WA, moderate winds are a less common treat and strong winds are par for the course.

25knots, lake wind swell and 4.8m kite.... Big Tick.

Tried a 4m today in 30knots and was still allot at that wind strength the waves and wind chop were unrelenting and made it hard to control speed

I am with bigtone and da fish I much prefer stronger winds and small kites for free riding and surfing the wind swell.

I guess it all depends on what your trying to achieve as it needs to be smooth to go really fast.

For me just in the last couple months i have really discovered how much fun foiling is in the open choppy waters that are so common in WA. I have been amazed at how i can really surf and carve all these unbroken wind swell waves that I had never even noticed before. Stronger winds and smaller kites are definitely better for this.

With that said it is very impressive to see the race guys going mach 10 in bugger all wind

A big surf wing also helps in the higher winds, much easier to keep under control. 5 mtr kite on a surf foil in over 20 knots out on Moreton Bay, big downwind runs carving the wind chop, how good is that

How about 12-22 kts being Z shaped arrows. Fits in with foiling on my now only kite, 8m Zeeko Notus Air.

has anyone else noticed the big wings seem to cope with more power easier?

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DukeSilver said..

dafish said..
whats wrong with you guys? Big wind means tiny kite, like a 4. And a big wing. The chop when it's that windy is very fun!

True, high winds and small kites are still great fun, but 12 - 16kts means I get to use my favorite kite, a 9m Ozone Hyperlink, and that is my happy place. In WA, moderate winds are a less common treat and strong winds are par for the course.

gotcha....it's all fun. Would love to spend a bit more time on a hyperlink. Only got to fly one briefly.

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dafish said..

DukeSilver said..

dafish said..
whats wrong with you guys? Big wind means tiny kite, like a 4. And a big wing. The chop when it's that windy is very fun!

True, high winds and small kites are still great fun, but 12 - 16kts means I get to use my favorite kite, a 9m Ozone Hyperlink, and that is my happy place. In WA, moderate winds are a less common treat and strong winds are par for the course.

gotcha....it's all fun. Would love to spend a bit more time on a hyperlink. Only got to fly one briefly.

Yep they are a nice kite for foiling. Ive just started to nail 360s and tacks to toe side and the Hyperlink really helped me with those. I still love using a fast LEI when the wind picks up though. Like you say - it's all fun.

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Falco said..
Tried a 4m today in 30knots and was still allot at that wind strength the waves and wind chop were unrelenting and made it hard to control speed

Next size kite for my 65kg foiling on a Moses 633 will be 3m or 3.5m. Should slot nicely under my 5m Naish Boxer which works from approx 12 knots. Just don't need much kite on a big wing with plenty of wind. Especially with some nice wind swells to surf on

Possible candidates include the new Flysurfer Peak4 single skin foil. Have sold a few and got some great reports back. Very light, very fast and plenty of power per sq metre. Designed mainly as a snow and land kite, so water relaunching is not built in as such, but a keen kiter in Germany has relaunched it 69 out of 70 times from the water. I like those odds