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Will’s Downwind SUP Foil Journey – Diary # 2 / PRO EDITION

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Hum3
Hum3
11 months ago

A lot to unpack there. A good discussion! My understanding of what you were saying is that fundamentally the Weymouth guys seem to be matching their foils with their boards. Big foils do not need the board speed offered by long narrow boards and when you’re taking off from inside a harbour the bumps will be small and slow so that compromise works out. Initially you should be riding whatever gives you the most foil time but once over that initial ‘paddle up hump’ you (well I did!) start to want to push the boundaries of performance, and by that… Read more »

Will Rogers
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11 months ago
Reply to  Hum3

Hey, really awesome to read about your experiences and thoughts. Yep I agree, I think as the foil gets more performance DW based, the longer thinner boards will make that paddle up easier….however, I’m still intrigued as to the potential to paddle up more performance foils in short ‘steep’ chop over ground swell on wider boards and if the additional stability can help… but by then I guess in the journey you shouldn’t be touching down much? The weymouth crew are very much focussed on big wind down winding – they dont seem to bother unless its >25knots…. it was… Read more »

cam
cam
11 months ago

I will probably never do foiling but I found the conversation very interesting

Will Rogers
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11 months ago
Reply to  Reuben Ellis

Never say never Cam!

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