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No sailing advice in that area but we liked Konstanz, which you look to be passing through. Near there we took a bus/ferry to Meersburg castle.
I also noticed the route almost going to Croatia. There are rentals there in some spots but I haven't been though I've always wanted to go. Mainly went to Zagreb and Split, but I think on Hvar and Brac there are rentals. I think water donkey?

I think the local Jake got one and he likes it

Tardy said..
105 Starboard Futura would be my pick .??

Was out on my dyno in a lull recently and got blasted past by a lady on a small futura and a duke about a meter smaller than my 6.7 blade. Went back later and saw she was on an upright drake vs my weed fin. Left me wanting a bit

I was thinking about this post when I was falling off plane in lulls on my freestyle wave board, while someone on a freerace board was flying around me. And I kept thinking, maybe a freerace board of my own would be good, or maybe even a real freestyle board, or...

The 115+ fuselage puts the front wing far forward, making it a lot harder to go crosswind comfortably.

Your kit should have the 95+ with it. Try it, but it is less stable due to it being a shorter fuselage. It'll be less powerful due to the front wing position.

You can also get the 105+ fuselage which has a less powerful front wing position but longer fuse so it's more stable than the 95+, which feels a lot better to me when i don't want to go hard upwind/downwind

jstone1 said..
Yep 14kts, 5.2 foil freek and Sab 909 plenty. That's my biggest rig these days. I'm about 82kg...

Yeah I'm 91-93 kg after dropping some weight from 98. 909 looks a bit faster than the ptm 926, I'll have to put in my ptm 930 in.

Well, I'm trying. Not 100% sure I clear the foil.

Feel like a I need more pop still. And to really pull up my legs but the timing feels so strange.

Had a windy day yesterday and it was 5.6/6.7 finning weather. With my comfort on the fin vs. foil for tricks I started trying forward loops in the most basic way. Out of straps, practicing the head turn and shove sail windward, sheeting in, and tucking. Got ragdolled a bunch on my good side, purposefully. When I tried it in the straps I got stuck to the water, so I really need to work on my pop. But, I wanted to overcome at least one fear of that motion of deliberately catapulting.

I used the foilx 145 for a while with infinity 76 then ptm 926 with the jack plate, and had to l move it quite a bit forward. I spent a lot of time without rear straps on the 76 because I just went direct tuttle to tuttle vs trackmount and jack plate on 926.

Hard to get the balance right with mismatched gear and tuttle unfortunately, and getting it further forward helped my jibes tremendously.
I haven't touched it since getting the freestyle 115 and moving the foil even further forward.
Infinity 76




ptm 926

With how many different foil kits there were for a while, and many different hybrid/dedicated boards, seems like there have been a lot of different setups that work.

Here's something that seemed really silly to me and I almost didn't try. I had my 8.0 cheetah rigged because it was windy enough to fin, and I wanted to try using my select carbon slalom fin instead of a weed fin, as the weeds were actually tame. The difference was amazing, and I forgot what a real upright fin felt like on my Blast. The wind dropped off after an hour, and I had my freestyle 115 with me (and ptm 926), so I figured I would try it.

An 8.0 seems ridiculous. Normally I limit myself to the 7.0 foil glide, which is a bit difficult to uphaul on this board at my weight (over 95kg at the moment...), but very nice for light wind freeride. I have tried the 7.5 gator on it, but never the 8.0. It just seemed to big. But, it was rigged, I didn't have my foil glides (I mistakenly thought it would be windy enough for my freeks...yet again), and I didn't want to unrig just to rerig my 6.7 blade.

Well, it turns out it worked. I put it well forward of where I put the foil glide 7 or the freeks, because it's got a center of effort further back. I uphauled it once, sinking like crazy, but other than that just waterstarted when I fell in. It felt a bit awkward to pump, but it didn't need a whole lot of pumping. I think it would gust sometimes up to 15kts and I didn't feel like it was too out of hand, but I definitely felt the mast flex and the sail twist a lot compared to the foil glides. To sheet in I ha to move right out on the rail on both feet, which really put me outside of the straps. Jibing felt a bit awkward but it was sorta doable for my skill level.

Figured I would share it because it was kind of funny and a moment of desperation when I didn't have the ideal gear with me. A buddy got a video of me doing a side by side and jibe that I had a big touchdown on but kept going: