Hi
Just broke the leash attachment part on my board. It made a nasty hole, and I dont think putting it (the leash
attachment part) back in the repair would be enough to prevent another (bigger) tear in the board so i just repaired the hole in the board without the leash thing.
So now w i'll be parawinging without a leash.
Do some of you do that ? Wingfoiling its easy to bodydrag, in parawinging I'm not sure esp since i ride a very big foil (1100cm2)
Interested in Your Feeedbacks
Thanks
So i decided to try to attach the leash to the back strap. Do you Think its a bad idea ?
I broke my leash once on a DW run. Every time a wave lifted the back of the board it foiled itself down the wave and away from me. No way I was ever going to catch it!! I was with a mate who had to chase it down and hold on to it all until I could drag down to him. No way I would go without a leash now. The footstrap attachment is better than no leash.
What type of leash were you using when the board failed?
I have seen a simple dyneema bungee leash rip the whole tail off a board in a high speed crash.
Those dyneema leashes are bad news for leash plugs in a big crash or waves, ripped mine out when I hit a turtle and got catapulted. They don’t have enough give compared to a urethane leash.
Select to expand quoteairsail said..
Those dyneema leashes are bad news for leash plugs in a big crash or waves, ripped mine out when I hit a turtle and got catapulted. They don't have enough give compared to a urethane leash.Select to expand quoteFarNorthSurfer said..
I broke my leash once on a DW run. Every time a wave lifted the back of the board it foiled itself down the wave and away from me. No way I was ever going to catch it!! I was with a mate who had to chase it down and hold on to it all until I could drag down to him. No way I would go without a leash now. The footstrap attachment is better than no leash.
What type of leash were you using when the board failed?
I have seen a simple dyneema bungee leash rip the whole tail off a board in a high speed crash.
Yeah it was dyneema, i used to have a normal leash but it kept being tangled in the lines of the PW. but i'll switch it back fs because I'm not too confident about that back strap leash thing i made, Or i'll try to make something that snaps and releases a but more line before breaking the board
Thanks for the infos
Lots of ways to improvise the leash cover. This is what I use:
These stop line tangles with the coil.
stokedonfoiling.com.au/products/the-inviz-leash-coil-cover-parawing-board-leash
If you are in any solid swell you could 95% guarantee you lose your board. It is far better at foiling with you off it than on it. If you are packing away the PW, then you don't have any means to catch up with it quickly when you get launched. If you're in smaller swell and a relatively constrained location then definitely a maybe, but it also seems like a dick thing to have a high speed knife heading to the beach without any control of it.
Leash tangling is one of those problems that seems to pretty much disappear once you've got a bit of time parawinging, I have not had a leash tangle for this whole season.
