Benoit Carpentier and Martin Letourneur share an edit of a downwind foil run near their home in France.
Looking back on one of the only downwind runs of “the summer” in Brittany/ Finistère north, 11 km from Saint Mathieu point to Little Minou lighthouse with a good headwind against the current, a course of around 30 minutes in good little bumps for Martin Letourneur & Benoit Carpentier in training before the Crozon Foil Festival (10/14 October 24).
Gear used:
Benoit – All Starboard
Ace lightning : 8.2 x 18 – 101L
Foil blade M
82 cm mast foamcore – 820 MF – 130 SLX
Martin – MD surfboard / Starboard /
Fone MD Limitless 7.6
Starboard Enduro paddle S
Fone eagle 800
Film : Loulou prod.
Edit : Benoit Carpentier
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