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The Carve 3 series came out last year (September?). I’ve been using it for swell style since. It’s a bit pitchy, but I think that’s designed in so it has the “pop” they want. The recommended stab is the Px175. I could never get it to work and went back to the C250 from the Free series. While I was in Baja in January I tried the Glide 2 750 and think it’s a better match for my riding style (no jumping, carving not slashing).
Duotone no longer offers the 105 cm mast or the smaller sizes of their F-pace foil sail. I love both and will continue to gripe about it in the hope they do a limited run at least so I can restock. I did try the Super Hero recently and really, it was fine. I felt it did cause the board to get a bit more pitchy when it started to get over-powered. (More then the Fpace.)
The new Stingray 103 looks much shorter and wider. I’ll try to upload a picture I grabbed from George’s video. Sorry, can’t upload from my iPad. (This new interface is not iPad friendly really. I typed then instead of than above and I can’t seem to go back and change it. The cursor keeps jumping back to the end.)
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C'mon. Gotta be shopped. That's not a stable system.
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Just to be clear, is this the traditional metal plug or a Gortex plug?
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Maybe just use a lawn chair?
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With our launches it's usually nose first, but going in that's into the wind and coming out it's at my back. I rarely walk backwards unless the wind is really up.
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My Fanatic Stingray didn't have a bottom handle and since I ride strapless I needed something. So I put the foil on the board where I like it and carefully measured the balance point then put the handle there. It was pretty far in front of the foil tracks.
In contrast, my newer Duotone stingray does have a handle about 7 cm in front of the tracks and it's too far back and the nose wants to drop. If I had the CAD that wouldn't have happened.
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Mark's right. Surface area doesn't matter in the steady state, but surface tension does. Surface tension is calculated by knowing the length of the three phase contact line (where the water touches the board at the surface). In this respect, the area doesn't matter, but since the more area you have, the more "perimeter" you have, it matters.
Fun fact: when I was a youngster my father taught me how to gently drop needles and flat razor blades onto clean water so they wouldn't sink. Supported by surface tension.
Edit: Sorry, I meant to add the surface tension force is pretty small and I wouldn't bother calculating it.
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Mario is young. I'm closer to his dad's age, who wings. Let's visit Mario again in 10 years.
