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Was about to ask “are Starboard not using shims anymore?” before I read hangovers reply (I’m still on iq, bit out of the loop on new starboard gear), but yeah, reduce the shim angle is the traditional fix for too much power, because it tends to work. Move down the shims till you find the one that reduces the power enough.

bel29 said..
if you seek total freedom I can think of some other wearables you could ditch :D

Too cold for that over here in Aus in winter. Besides, it gets all sorts of funny looks at the beach.

sailortrash said..
Look, Tuttle is fin-solution, to deal with side forces
there is very little of this in a foil, the force is vertical
doesn’t matter if the box goes through the deck, the pressure point is just in front of mast/deck attachment area
what u need is a pedestal solution. We see that implementation in mast/fuse connections. Starboard even went all in with 4 bolts. But those forces are way smaller than what u get on the deck in front of the mast.

Actually, the loads a foil can put on a board/box can be quite monstrous compared to anything a fin does. Theres a lot more leverage force going on at the end of a foil mast when the board gets swung around/heeled over than any fin can do. Only a formula fin might come close.

Thats what makes these adaptable designs somewhat scary, they no longer trap all that force on a small tapered area with a somewhat solidly built oversized box around it, they put the short lever end in a long open surface where the leverage ends up applying the load to the side of the box.

If you’re just foiling along bolt upright with a small foil on then you’re only going to be applying lots of vertical force. But if you’re going to head out and jump/twist/surf swell /turn corners etc, then you’d wanna hope they’ve built something very damn solid next to that long box.

miamiwindsurfe said..
Free foil, no harness or harness lines, no foot straps= freedom. Winger only use harness if racing , as longer as you use low drag modern foils and small sails...

Well, i can certainly wrap my head around the freedom of not using the harness when riding the swells/free foiling for a short time, i really wouldn’t read too much into what the wingers are up to.

A lot of them seem to be slow adopters of well established ways of doing things in other windsports (that would serve them well). a lot of the wingers i see now are in fact using harness lines, albeit with their “special” winging harnesses(belts?).

even wave sailors and freestylers use them, despite only using them between waves/tricks.

waist harness for me, but i really think its very much a personal preference thing.

Lets just say Pauline’s not my cup of tea and leave it at that….

FormulaNova said..

Subsonic said..
It'd be nice if it did open up to something usable again, but not holding my breath. Looks like the council may pick up the dredging again if nature helps. It'd be a shame if they dredge where they did before, it'd be the whole saga over again

Hey, if people are campaigning about red rubbish bins, maybe someone can campaign about not wasting money on dredging?

It sounds like the money would be better spent building/rebuilding another boatramp somewhere else where its not likely to get inundated with sand. Clearly where the yacht club is tells us that its difficult to stop sand buildup.

While they’re at it, if they could trim the top off tern island point back to the kite beach and replant some nice salt bush to hold everything in place, that’d be money well spent (well, from our perspective).



i think the boaties have had their turn with the space/council spending on maintenance. Our turn now.

Imax1 said..
Hey , what about laminating a board ,with one continuous thread , the way north makes those sails ? You could perfectly control the layers , angles of threads . Perfect stiffness , strength , twist , whatever you want. On a rotisserie , both sides all in one hit. I’m a god dam genius . I’ll accept a case of beer from whoever does this first.😀

Kinda like filament winding a mast?



Genius!

So easy even an AI could do it. No need for all those pesky workers!

What you can try:
less mast rake (if you can, 1.0 degree is pretty close to where it’ll sit naturally) if you’ve got a shim in on top of the mast, remove it.

bump the mast base (sail) back in the track. Thats possibly what the problem actually is given what you’ve said. The tuning can be finite once you start to dial it in, but for now , move it a decent amount, say 1cm + it should make lift off and staying up much easier. Moving it forward will help to keep the lift the foil gives you in check. Too far forward and the rig weight and down force from the sail will hold the board down.

also try the age old tip of…. More downhaul. Too tight a leech at the top of the sail will also counter your pumping efforts, and hold the nose down on certain points of sail.

is there weed where you sail? What you’ve described is what it feels like when you catch some.

its a bit counter intuative, but bigger boards are actually harder to pop onto the foil than smaller ones. Its what they can do once on the foil that they come into their own.

edit: some of the above might sound simplistic/stuff you’ve already encountered if you’ve been foiling for a while, but the importance of it all amplifies when you’re on a bigger board/higher aspect foil than freeride.

Provided you can generate the initial energy required to get on the foil, you could use a plank of wood. Research the quaint sport "water skiing".

obviously you'll want a piece of wood a bit wider than what they use, but you'll get the idea. 35L is already well below what will float your body weight unless you're 5yrs old.

gs12 said..
if you have skills that AI can use, just create an account here:

rentahuman.ai/

I think we are somewhat already here. People planting questions on forums/bookface etc so ai can generate better answers/responses.

i'm willing to place a bet that a lot of wind/watersports answers from ai come from seabreeze.

Yeah, I hope they realise what they've created. It is a bit of a worry if its already at the self preservation stage.

Let's say we don't get skynet though. The job losses will be gradual, gradual enough that there will be no planning around the fact that whole sectors of industry will see massive job losses, humans will be redundant, but not suddenly enough that anyone has do anything about it. Do we all just turn destitute? I'd kinda like to know there's a grand plan for what the human race does when next to no one needs to clock in anymore.

Im sure everybody has had a bit of a think about this.


AI if you listen to those in the "know" is going to take over somewhat comprehensively. Where does that leave us?

Hows the industry you work in looking? I can see some getting wiped out, others i think the take over is going to be near impossible.

Obelix said..
The black one with orange it is.
Bought it SH.
Not sure which shop used to sell them. Or which one sells them now.
Anyone can help?

Jesper is who was selling them originally here in WA