Sounds like you have all the info to answer your own question -are you happy holding onto the 5m until you can get going on the 3.6m?

MProject04 said..
Question about the Ozone Pocket Rocket V2 wind range.

Currently have the 3.6 and 5.0 and pondering if it's worth to get the 4.3.

I have to say the 3.6 has a good low end and gets going when the 5.0 gets hard to handle.

And a bit worried that I'll end up using the 4.3 only.

Any thoughts.. do people (intermediate PW-ers) skip a step in between sizes?

Well only one way to find out. If your game is upwind downwind then no - you will need a 4.3. But if you mainly pack and go DW … then should be all good.

Thanks everyone for chipping in! The gap isn't always obvious except on paper. And even on paper it's not very obvious because Ozone presents it wind range of 3.6 and 5.0 as nearly overlapping. In my sessions thus far I often go out and in conditions that start as light wind and develop into stronger winds session. Then I move from 5m in the sweetspot to 5m pretty overpowered, to 3.6m easy to get going, to them 3.6 in the sweetspot (and then 3.6 overpowered)
After doing this a couple of times you start to believe that living with a quiver gap is possible. But in the end may not be optimal.

The replies above made me realize how dialied in I have become to trying to live with the gap in the quiver. Is that a good thing? Probably not, because I'm more often hanging on.. than really operating in a sweetspot that allows to focus on other things. So I am going for closing the gap. Initially I thought to stick with Ozone PRv2 4.3m but then decided to go for an Altis Focus 4.0m. Change up the experience a bit. The bar looks damn good, integrated harness line too. Gav's review looked good. Fingers crossed!

bigtone667 said..
It will be interesting to get your feedback after you have been riding the different wing for a while. I have a few brands and not all trash bags are the same,

I mentioned my PRv2 5.0m and 3.6m and the gap between.. and I do have the 4.3m v1... but since on the v2 I don't want to touch the v1 anymore. I totally believe you! Maybe when I touch the Altis the PR will feel suddenly inferior. Or the opposite

I have the PR2 in 5.7 and 4.3 and they work good as a set, but not much overlap. When the wind is steady no big deal, I pick the right one and stay on it, but when the wind is going a bit up and down I keeps switching. In an ideal world you have all the sizes, but that is also $$$$
When its borderline you can also get more rannge out of a para by going for a bigger or smaller foil. Personally I rather grab in minimum wind my 4.3 and AFS 1300 Enduro to get me really easy going as my 5.7 with a 900 foil that is faster.

Idk what the 5m is like at 22 knots but the 4.3m won't be happy far above that. 22 knots is pretty lit up, 24 knots it starts to misbehave and beyond that it's really not fun. I've had it out up to about 29 and it was an absolutely miserable experience.

AnyBoard said..
All this discussion and no mention of peoples weights and boards.
I think it is possible to skip a size at the bottom end.
I weigh 65kg and 4.3 is 10 to 15knt, 3.6 15 to 20knt and 3m above. I could have had a 5m at the bottom end with the rest of the quiver the same.

Some much heavier friends for example have 5.7 10 to 15knt and 4.3 15 to 20 knt.

For different reasons some people are trying to ride the smallest wing they can get up on and some are trying to ride the biggest wing they can hold.

Weight, foil sizes are all important in the sizes of the pwings you might need. Once you get used riding in the sweet spot, you really struggle with being over-powered.


Riding with a harness does help give an expanded range.

bigtone667 said..

AnyBoard said..
All this discussion and no mention of peoples weights and boards.
I think it is possible to skip a size at the bottom end.
I weigh 65kg and 4.3 is 10 to 15knt, 3.6 15 to 20knt and 3m above. I could have had a 5m at the bottom end with the rest of the quiver the same.

Some much heavier friends for example have 5.7 10 to 15knt and 4.3 15 to 20 knt.

For different reasons some people are trying to ride the smallest wing they can get up on and some are trying to ride the biggest wing they can hold.

Weight, foil sizes are all important in the sizes of the pwings you might need. Once you get used riding in the sweet spot, you really struggle with being over-powered.


Riding with a harness does help give an expanded range.

I totally agree on the sweet spot and for some people like me that is more important than my budget so I have no gaps. The sweat spot for me is where the VMG is best not necessarily where I am comfortable.


I have noticed over time though my sweet spot has moved to the higher end of the range for each size because as my experience improved so did my expectation of how fast i can get upwind. So now when I size for the session I aim to ride the wing in 2 or 3 knots above what I once thought the range of the size might be as this is where the VMG can get really good. I could not possibly ride like that without a harness. Un hooking for a jibe means i can barely hold the bar and can't wait to hook back in. It means the range is theoretically considerably more for me but because I don't want to ride out of that top 15% of the range then practically the range stays the same for me.

Life's short.....our free time to PW is even shorter, get the 4.3 and maximise ur enjoyment.
I run 5, 4.3, 3.6, 3, 2.4 and always take a 2nd one out depending on the forecast.