Just tried out my NP small wing in shoulder to head high punchy waves. That is the punchy waves being high volume very fat swell.
I mounted the foil more forward to help with lift.
Whoa! It lifted my heavy foil SUP easily. The SUP is 7ft x 31wide x 115 litres.
I even needed to put more weight forward when up & going.
Obviously couldn't pump it much & left right stability was a bit less. But no problem. Turning was easy.
I even breached a few times. Which showed lift was no problem at all. But yes as I travelled further away from the wave face or further away from the shoulder to flat water it would soon slow down & lose glide.
But when up & going I had no problem pumping a bit at speed to get to other bumps or swell in front of me.
So it was better than I expected on lift. Just took some weight off front foot & up it went!
Next session I will need to put the foil further back in the tracks. It seems that it may be about 10mm in front of the Medium wing position which is about 10mm in front of the Large wing.
Looking forward to using the Small along a walling wave or playing around near the wave shoulder. Obviously in bigger swell too.