Foiling Face-Plant

Enable JavaScript to get the best experience.

Create new topic

Search Subscribed Active Create new topic

5 years ago

General Gps & Speed Waves Foiling Gear Reviews Lost & Found WA NSW QLD SA VIC TAS

lonesy

VIC

8 posts

lonesy

VIC, 8 posts

9 Oct 2020 9:50pm

We've all done it ...

PatK

325 posts

PatK

325 posts

9 Oct 2020 9:32pm

I hit some driftwood this week. Not really funny

Paducah

2841 posts

Paducah

2841 posts

9 Oct 2020 9:55pm

PatK said..
I hit some driftwood this week. Not really funny

Even snagging a small branch (1 cm or less) with leaves in the water is enough. When we had hard rains and the water levels rose last winter here (Northern Hemisphere), there was all sorts of crap in the water including logs. That made you pay attention.

Hope you didn't break anything.

PatK

325 posts

PatK

325 posts

9 Oct 2020 10:44pm

Yeah, it was about 4cm thick but quite long and bobbed vertically. Much driftwood here at lake constance.
Plastic bags are nasty too.

segler

1663 posts

segler

WA, 1663 posts

9 Oct 2020 11:54pm

Even hitting fish on the Columbia River will put you down. The good news is the subsequent fish dinner.

CAN17

575 posts

CAN17

575 posts

10 Oct 2020 3:59am

segler said..
Even hitting fish on the Columbia River will put you down. The good news is the subsequent fish dinner.

I hit a floating dead fish one time mid gybe I saw it late and overreacted to try and miss it, but still hit it and ended up breaching and some how landed on the sail. No damage

DavidJohn

VIC

17570 posts

DavidJohn

VIC, 17570 posts

10 Oct 2020 7:07am

I can do that without hitting anything..

LeeD

3939 posts

LeeD

3939 posts

10 Oct 2020 4:08am

As said, everyone's done it.
Thrice I've stupidly tried to stay with slalom sailors on my 1220. Thrice I got launched hooked in going at the high teens.
3 other times, hitting something under the water= a slow "Laugh in" kind of fall, slung around to leeward of my kit.
Should jumped and tried a forward.

PatK

325 posts

PatK

325 posts

10 Oct 2020 4:11am

DavidJohn said..
I can do that without hitting anything..

seanhogan

QLD

3424 posts

seanhogan

QLD, 3424 posts

10 Oct 2020 6:59am

I hit a dugong last year..... (yes... I wasn't looking

) nothing broken but harness lines had disapeared after the catapult.

Please Register, or first...

Topics Reply