Select to expand quoteWindxtasy said..
If you're going really fast don't fall in backwards whilst holding the boom as the sudden deceleration of your body whilst the sail and board are still speeding will wrench your front shoulder.
Getting catapulted is not good for shoulders either.
Agree with both, broke my thumb while holding the boom falling backwards, and got a bad shoulder but not from catapulting, but hurts like hell after one.
Select to expand quoteterminal said..sboardcrazy said..Mark _australia said..
Sue I think you need to realise you are on bloody big gear in those winds.
I am 95kg and in solid 30kn I am on 85L, 21cm fin and 4.2. Might increase those sizes a bit if it is gusty.
You at 50 or 60kg (?) are on 95L freeride and 4.5m, which barely holds the nose down and the fin wants to rail up.
Maybe try to borrow a small FSW or a waveboard with lots of vee (not a new school board like an EVO) on next nuking day. You may be able to pick up a 5-7 y/o FSW about 70L for $400 ish one day and it will feel so so much better in those conditions.
I'm 65kgs ( winter..
) and I'd be on a 78ltre waveboard ( which I haven't totally mastered yet..
) with a 3.8m or 3.2m sail.I'd still be totally overpowered as I need a 2m in those conditions ( gusting 35 +)..
Even 78 sounds big for your weight in 30 knots. You should spend more time on the 78 - its a medium sized board for you.
I'm 82 kg and my favourite board is an 86 litre 56cm wide waveboard which I use from 5.7 down to 4.0m sails. It makes it so much easier to handle choppy water and waves. If you have the right 3.2m sail and mast, you should be OK with that sail in 35 knots, but the 78 would be feeling big.
Problem is I lOVE my 95ltre..also when the wind gets over 25kts here there are often big lulls and the 95 will keep going whereas the 78 goes off the plane easier..I hate slogging! Too tiring. I may have to bite the bullet and start using a larger sail on the 78.At the moment the largest I use is the 4.2m which only works with c 25kts +.I only had the 18cm weedie last season.Now I've got a 23cm I will have to force myself to use the 4.8 with the 78ltre board and relearn how to gybe..ugh
Select to expand quotesboardcrazy said..
Problem is I lOVE my 95ltre..also when the wind gets over 25kts here there are often big lulls and the 95 will keep going whereas the 78 goes off the plane easier..I hate slogging! Too tiring. I may have to bite the bullet and start using a larger sail on the 78.At the moment the largest I use is the 4.2m which only works with c 25kts +.I only had the 18cm weedie last season.Now I've got a 23cm I will have to force myself to use the 4.8 with the 78ltre board and relearn how to gybe..ugh
If the 78 is a good board you will learn to love it more than the 95.
The 78 is still a big board for you. If the wind is gusty/up and down, learn the right downhaul settings for the 4.2 and 4.8 so they handle well with a big wind range.
I enjoy keeping the board planing in lulls by using the faces of waves, bearing off, trimming the board slightly flatter. Keep the harness line ends close together so you can feel the right sheeting angle for maximum power as you bear off etc.
Pretty sure I have seen a scary as video of a windsurfer nearly drowning after falling off and having got back foot stuck in a strap.
I personally have trashed a gybe with my back foot stuck in strap, face down.... That was a worry. Certainly I would never bail and intentionally keep a foot in.
