A quick little edit from an early new year session up here in the Northern hemisphere (Ireland) with a balmy 8c air and 8c water temp

Getting used to a new foil setup with the Fanatic Stingray Ltd 115 and the Fanatic Flow 3.0 alu, 90cm mast, 90cm fuse and Flow 1000 front with. Have had a couple of sessions on it now mostly in 5.3, small wind swell type conditions and one lovely side shore, small swell day when the wind dropped after wave sailing. This was gusty 4.2 weather.

Bit of a change after spending the last couple of years on a JP hydro 135 and AFS Wind 95, also keeping these for freeride / blasting, new setup is great fun for playing around on with small sails and lovely to just pick up a small swell to glide and play on. Definitely more biased towards front foot weighting even with the foil mast mounted well back from the recommended position. Flow 1000 wing is a little twitchy at lower speeds but is lovely to turn and stays very controllable as it gets faster, not trying to push up and breach. Also have a Flow 1500 on order so will be interesting to see what that is like in really light wind and maybe even give the winging a go

Yeah, how does it compared to the AFS W95, and what AFS wing(s) did you have? For my weight 86 kg in light winds I think I need to pump the F1080 wing to get through the gybe without touching down, since I am going relatively slow on purpose.

Thanks for the info. Daithidmg

Daithidmg said..
A quick little edit from an early new year session up here in the Northern hemisphere (Ireland) with a balmy 8c air and 8c water temp

Getting used to a new foil setup with the Fanatic Stingray Ltd 115 and the Fanatic Flow 3.0 alu, 90cm mast, 90cm fuse and Flow 1000 front with. Have had a couple of sessions on it now mostly in 5.3, small wind swell type conditions and one lovely side shore, small swell day when the wind dropped after wave sailing. This was gusty 4.2 weather.

Bit of a change after spending the last couple of years on a JP hydro 135 and AFS Wind 95, also keeping these for freeride / blasting, new setup is great fun for playing around on with small sails and lovely to just pick up a small swell to glide and play on. Definitely more biased towards front foot weighting even with the foil mast mounted well back from the recommended position. Flow 1000 wing is a little twitchy at lower speeds but is lovely to turn and stays very controllable as it gets faster, not trying to push up and breach. Also have a Flow 1500 on order so will be interesting to see what that is like in really light wind and maybe even give the winging a go

Very nice
Hardcore sailing in 8 degree ocean.

thedoor said..

Does the hydro/afs have a further sail to foil distance to the fanatic setup? I find a short distance makes things much more maneverable but gybing a bit more tricky

Yeah, the mast base is further back on the stingray so that certainly has something to do with it.

@Grantmac that's proper hard core!