Under 20 sessions on my Wizard 125 and i76 but It's starting to come together a bit. One bugaboo is breaching when overpowered. When I get to the "oh **" moment as I'm WAY up there, I jam on the front foot as hard as I can. My rear foot comes forward. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. Someone told me to try to pull up on the rear footstrap. I haven't even put rear straps on yet. Is this a strategy that works for you? Thanks for ideas to prevent the dreaded breach!

I pull up a little on the rear footstrap while leaning forward and putting weight on the front harness line and front arm. I think its more to keep balance when leaning forward.

Hey marc5, I think you will find that with more experience you will be able to anticipate when it is about to go up and breach. Then you can more easily and gently correct the pitch. It's all muscle memory and the feeling of the things on the water.

Even after 170 sessions, my pitch is never dead-stable. Since I foil in mostly gusty conditions (Columbia Gorge), I have gotten used to constantly correcting the pitch to avoid breaching. Just part of the game. A long mast gives you more "room" to make corrections.

When you pull up on rear straps, where does your weight rest?

nimo1972 said..
Moving both hands forward on the boom will drop the nose in powered up conditions ??

Only if you transfer weight into the harness.

Subsonic said..
I guess it all comes with muscle memory, i'd describe it as unweighting the back foot. The real trick is to be able to do it then catch it before you touch down without starting to hobby horse.

Yeah. I don't pull up on the back strap but I do find my self lifting the back heel probably in an attempt to de-weight the back foot