yes, It's normal for the front and back holes to match, unless you have very wide feet

mariachi76 said..
Hi Duzzi, thedoor, windflyer,

since you are all from the bay area (know thedoor and windflyer personally),

I am sharing my latest slalom video in rather lightwind conditions (16-18kn). Used my iSOnic 7.2 and a 7.8 sail (I weigh 82kg).
In the previous couple of sessions I had my rear footstraps in the back position, and also had a feeling of no weight on the front foot. So I tried to move the rear straps to the front position. It gave me a tad more pressure on the front foot, but made the board very sticky on the water. It felt good. Max speed I reached was around 27.2 kn. I guess next time I'll try the mastfoot a bit back (had it about 1cm towards the front) and will try the boom slightly higher to make the board fly more.
Here's the video, happy for any comments to improve my gear tuning and stance.

best,
mariachi76

Sweet footage.

We gotta do some speed runs again. Looks like we are pretty close to the same level. Duzzi and Windflyer welcome too, I think they have us on experience but every dog has its day

duzzi said..

thedoor said..

mariachi76 said..
Hi Duzzi, thedoor, windflyer,

since you are all from the bay area (know thedoor and windflyer personally),

I am sharing my latest slalom video in rather lightwind conditions (16-18kn). Used my iSOnic 7.2 and a 7.8 sail (I weigh 82kg).
In the previous couple of sessions I had my rear footstraps in the back position, and also had a feeling of no weight on the front foot. So I tried to move the rear straps to the front position. It gave me a tad more pressure on the front foot, but made the board very sticky on the water. It felt good. Max speed I reached was around 27.2 kn. I guess next time I'll try the mastfoot a bit back (had it about 1cm towards the front) and will try the boom slightly higher to make the board fly more.
Here's the video, happy for any comments to improve my gear tuning and stance.

best,
mariachi76

Sweet footage.

We gotta do some speed runs again. Looks like we are pretty close to the same level. Duzzi and Windflyer welcome too, I think they have us on experience but every dog has its day

Not sure about being more experienced, but I think I am retiring into freeride sailing! Nowadays I am mostly on camless sails, fast ones, but still, and don't seem to have any desire left for sailing overpowered in swell and a race sail! I'll leave "speed runs" (in quotes, I am lucky if I touch above 30 knots for those silly 2") to the easy Candlestick "flat water". Serious speed is out ... and slalom racing at Crissy seems like something from a different life! Aging can be good, but it takes its toll, or ones desires shift ...

fair enough, this is my first foray into slalom/"speed" sailing so I am pretty pumped about it for now. Who knows what I will be into in a year of two

duzzi said..

thedoor said..

duzzi said..

thedoor said..

mariachi76 said..
Hi Duzzi, thedoor, windflyer,

since you are all from the bay area (know thedoor and windflyer personally),

I am sharing my latest slalom video in rather lightwind conditions (16-18kn). Used my iSOnic 7.2 and a 7.8 sail (I weigh 82kg).
In the previous couple of sessions I had my rear footstraps in the back position, and also had a feeling of no weight on the front foot. So I tried to move the rear straps to the front position. It gave me a tad more pressure on the front foot, but made the board very sticky on the water. It felt good. Max speed I reached was around 27.2 kn. I guess next time I'll try the mastfoot a bit back (had it about 1cm towards the front) and will try the boom slightly higher to make the board fly more.
Here's the video, happy for any comments to improve my gear tuning and stance.

best,
mariachi76

Sweet footage.

We gotta do some speed runs again. Looks like we are pretty close to the same level. Duzzi and Windflyer welcome too, I think they have us on experience but every dog has its day

Not sure about being more experienced, but I think I am retiring into freeride sailing! Nowadays I am mostly on camless sails, fast ones, but still, and don't seem to have any desire left for sailing overpowered in swell and a race sail! I'll leave "speed runs" (in quotes, I am lucky if I touch above 30 knots for those silly 2") to the easy Candlestick "flat water". Serious speed is out ... and slalom racing at Crissy seems like something from a different life! Aging can be good, but it takes its toll, or ones desires shift ...

fair enough, this is my first foray into slalom/"speed" sailing so I am pretty pumped about it for now. Who knows what I will be into in a year of two

It's fun! I am just being lazy!!!!

But on a different take. I was looking at the results of the 1 hour Classic at Garda. Foils and fin in two different days. The absolute fin record held, but this year foil was almost two laps faster, top speed around 32-33 knots and average a stunning 27 knots (over one hour!).

Just saying, because you foil, in open water foil speed, over 500m-nautical mile or more, are getting better than fin.

The two races, foil at 2'27"

The kind of foiling i do is a completely different animal to that slalom/race foiling.

decrepit said..
yes, It's normal for the front and back holes to match, unless you have very wide feet

Ok tried narrower frontstraps and had way less of that front foot feeling of flying so that is good. But i did run into some trouble just trying to get me foot in so made them taller. I do have high arches so maybe that makes sense?

55cm fin, 9.4overdrive on a falcon 140 in 18knots gets you flying on the fin. Just got back from 2 hours of hell with that set up, it was only 14knots when i headed out

On the edge with an 8.6m on a 138L:

AUS02 said..
On the edge with an 8.6m on a 138L:

epic

Imax1 said..
.......... Being comfortable overpowered is next level .

What is 'overpowered'? If you are 'comfortable', isn't that NOT 'overpowered'? To me 'overpowered' is when I am not at all comfortable, and in an incipient crash situation most of the time - until I do crash! . I have very rarely continued to sail like that except for a very few, short, epic speed runs, some of which did result in epic crashes.

But really, on almost all of my fastest speed runs, I felt very much in control during the fastest part. It was the run-in and bearaway where I was most out of control and I would call that 'overpowered'. The end of the fastest runs at Sandy Point were often very scary/verge of out of control, trying to slow down in the chop, but I would not say that I was 'overpowered' as I had sheeted out completely. But that was where most of my crashes occurred.

I guess my point is that 'overpowered' and 'comfortable' can't go together. And even 'fully, or max. powered is never that 'comfortable', at least in my experience.

sailquik said..

Imax1 said..
.......... Being comfortable overpowered is next level .

What is 'overpowered'? If you are 'comfortable', isn't that NOT 'overpowered'? To me 'overpowered' is when I am not at all comfortable, and in an incipient crash situation most of the time - until I do crash! . I have very rarely continued to sail like that except for a very few, short, epic speed runs, some of which did result in epic crashes.

But really, on almost all of my fastest speed runs, I felt very much in control during the fastest part. It was the run-in and bearaway where I was most out of control and I would call that 'overpowered'. The end of the fastest runs at Sandy Point were often very scary/verge of out of control, trying to slow down in the chop, but I would not say that I was 'overpowered' as I had sheeted out completely. But that was where most of my crashes occurred.

I guess my point is that 'overpowered' and 'comfortable' can't go together. And even 'fully, or max. powered is never that 'comfortable', at least in my experience.

For me "overpowered" simply means that you are using a sail that is more than enough for the conditions. For example, I am regularly out with 6.0-6.5 when people are freestyling or B&J with 4.2-4.7. And a better/heavier slalom sailor could easily be out with an additional square meter. Sailing overpowered is normal on a slalom board, right? It does not mean that you are out of control!

BTW: that 8.6/138L shot is quite amazing! He is powered up! (and obviously overpowered)

That pic was taken near the end of a race on an iSonic 85 (139L) with a 46 Tectonic Carbon Volt. Race was a around a single mark on the other side of the river, so a reach over and back. A freshening breeze with lighter wind across the other side, so needed to rig a bit bigger to be able to point if the wind swung at all and to get through any lulls. Sail fully out-hauled in the photo and it was getting a little overpowered at that stage for a beam reach. Max 2-second would have been not long before that photo was taken (29.416 knots), with a NM finishing at the finish of 27.857 knots. Weight - 95kg.

For me, over powered puts you in survival mode and you have to slow down to maintain control. If I can still sail flat out, I'm not overpowered.

Yes I know, slowing down increases sail pressure and makes the overpowering worse. Sheeting out just leads to tail walking.

It's a very fine line how to cope, especially with only a 20cm fin