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A long awaited Dougie post! Yay! That was sooo much fun. The wind was steady everywhere so I disappeared over the horizon for a bit! You know how your mind is constantly narrating a story when you alone on your board….well at one point Dora the Explorer was singing “OH CANADA!”
Love your tracking app and the way it is color coded to your speed, turning red as you slow down in the jibes and green and yellow as you speed up. The Goya Bolt held up to the chop well and a recent session on Seneca with a weed fin and noted increased jibe performance leads me to believe that if I ditch the slalom fin my jibes will immensely be improved by a wavier fin profile.
I think I did catch a glimpse of you near the shore in front of the mega homes but once I hit my jibe at the mouth of the river I high tailed it home rocketing off the wind and made it home in three to four reaches! I don’t think I’ve ever gone that fast on the Bolt, it was actually a bit scary except that all I had to do was take my foot off the throttle to calm down!
One of the advantages of foiling is that it get you out in the marginal conditions and if it suddenly ramps unexpectedly say due to a thermal, your in the right spot for a nice sesh!
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“The Goya Bolt held up to the chop well and a recent session on Seneca with a weed fin and noted increased jibe performance leads me to believe that if I ditch the slalom fin my jibes will immensely be improved by a wavier fin profile.”
A pointer slalom fin will be the trickiest to jibe, bouncing out a lot unless the rider really commits to the inside rail with lots of pressure. On my iSonic, I mainly have a pointer for 7.5 conditions (a smaller one came with the board, but I rarely ride the iSonic in 6.5). I love my Surfgrass fins, but not for the iSonic (most comparable to a Bolt).
For freeriding in chop, I would suggest a swept pointer style, I’ve always like the True Ames Convert. It’s more of a B&J than blasting fin, but is very forgiving. I’ve also had their Sweepers and Slalom Pointers, but don’t like those as much…never felt as loose as the Convert. The Shallow Weed might work, but I’ve rarely seen them and never used one. Some folks have them for the OBX.
https://www.trueames.com/pages/windsurf
I have a 13.5″ in a Tuttle base that is among the stuff I’m looking to sell (see in the For Sale section). It would be about right for 6.0-7.0.
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I caught your session report on FB, Eric! nice!!! Wilson sounds legit. A bit of a hike for us, but when we are jonesing for a session, who knows. Webster park here in town is a nicely exposed wave spot when the water is way down (and before the flooding of two years ago) but it now has huge rip rap and is quite technical. In years past we would head east to East Bay Rd. on the immediate east side of Chimney Bluffs. I have not been there in 3-4 years however.
I can’t say enough good things about Waterspeed app. The creators keep refining it and adding nice upgrades. I now have the ability to export my track to “Relive” to create a video overlay on a Google earth map. The accuracy seems pretty good as well as related to track and speed.
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