hilly forum posts in last 60 days

BWalnut said..
7.5 vmg with the 3.1 and 720 today which surprised me.

airsail said..



Wow, your board is so thick, no wonder you didn’t want to add a Gen 2 Max between the mast plate and board. My board is 12mm thick in that location, gives excellent feel and probably less distance than most boards without a Foildrive fitted.

Youngbreezy said..






Actually about a month ago I was out in 30-45 knots on my spitfire 1180 ( 1180 span 1500cm2) that’is my biggest foil. We had the biggest storm we’ve had in a few years in Perth we were on the swan river though so there’s almost no fetch. Downwind only in that wind. Barely able to control my 3m pt skin long enough to get it tucked away but once I did it was a fun surfy run. The big foil was the right size for the still quite slow bumps on the river.



We get plenty of days in Perth winter where the wind is strong and gusty but not a good direction to create bigger bumps so a big foil small para is the best setup.


Anyway thats totally beside the point. It would be great if there was a standard measurement for wind ranges like they have for car mileage but I don’t see that happening anytime soon. A brands stated wind range should be taken as a rough guesstimate only.


What I’m really interested in finding out is can a double skin with the PAL to increase camber create more low end grunt than a single skin? I think there’s a chance that it could. If you take a good solid clean airfoil from the double skin, perhaps there will be very little flutter and it may stay more solid in pumping, then you increase the camber to give it as much low end grunt as possible maybe it does create more power than a single skin. A single skin is more like a parachute using more raw grunt whereas the double skin would be more like a wing creating lift.


It’s an interesting question. I guess we will know the answer for sure in the next couple of months.

AnyBoard said..
I wonder what the wind ranges are where it actually performs at it maximum upwind angles. I can get up on a single skin 3.6 in 12 knots but it really needs to be 15 to get good angles and then it is maxed out at 17 or 18 knots. Yesterday I rode my 2.4m in what i think was 18 to 24 and it was perfectly powered. Could I get a 2.7m PPC for 15 and up and only need a 4.3 single skin for 10 to 15 knots? It all sounds too good to be true but I will be first in line if someone confirms if it all is true.

Mark _australia said..
I’m not as it’s digital ID by stealth. Ask the poms what they reckon about it. We rejected Australia Card in 1987 and now they bribe us to do it
I need the $100 bad but no thanks

GreenPat said..
What $100? Where do I get mine?

Youngbreezy said..
Anyone got thoughts on the 5.7 pr v2? I am wondering if I should replace my 5.4 pt skin with a 5.7 pr v2 or maybe a 5.5 ltx ?? ( or just keep the PT skin coz I’m pretty happy with it)