I'm about 15 days in to my parawing journey... I think the one advice I'd give/follow is that you need to burn some good winging days to learn on the parawing. It's much easier to learn in good conditions than try to learn as a side activity when the conditions falter (which I had been doing... sometimes going for 10 minutes at a time). Finally put in four days in a row, and that really helped... still have struggles sometime (usually from taking too small equipment).
What I'm using most of the time now for my 87kg:
-KT Super K Pro 90l
-Duotone Glide 2.0 D/LAB 900
also sometimes use:
-Duotone Skybrid D/LAB 70l
-Duotone Crest D/LAB 800
-AFS Silk 850
The larger 900 foil seems to have a lot more low end pump and can get me foiling with less board speed. The 90l board vs 70l is nice when the wind is lighter, but riding a 70l super light board also feels great. Actually finding I'm having some really great winging sessions on the larger gear with my 4.5.
I've been fairly conservative going too far out into the Bay here as the far side is the shipping channel and we have strong currents, but I have stowed three times onto ferry wakes with two successful redeploys.
I'm really liking using my wing harness (ION Rogue) for a harness and board leash point... I'm a foot switcher, so leashing to a stash belt that you need to rotate all the time was leash hell. Also, I found Ozone stash belt made for a poor harness... need to get it pretty tight to be useful as a harness, and then it was harder to rotate. Now just use my regular harness and put the stash belt on top and I don't even have to rotate it to the back to sail normally (although the bag does hang over the hook just a tiny bit but no big deal). Having a real harness that has support and a spreader bar that doesn't need to be super tight to work has been a big improvement.
My friend captured a vid of me on a ferry wake... sloppy wake, sloppy stow, and sloppy redeployment, but it all worked out... it was about a 2min ride in all. 1 min to stow (there was a lot of cross chop from other boat traffic, so didn't know whether I could lock into a spot on the wake to get it done or not), a fun little section to ride, and then a sloppy redeploy (had to shake out a line wrap, but was glad I was able to do that on the fly).... had to leave immediately and get int he car and pick up my kiddo from school otherwise I would have ridden the wake longer.
riding handsfree is as amazing as I had imagined. IG video below
www.instagram.com/p/DW63nXwjfxC/ 
