For the last few months I've been learning how to foil (in a bay, so moderately flat water). I started with straps, and I've now moved on to no straps.

I would like to start foiling in waves, but I'm concerned that it might be an exercise in frustration to do it strapless. While foiling in large chop/swell is easy enough, even small swell pushes me around and makes it very hard for me to do a strapless waterstart (something that I could easily do with straps).

I'm basically wondering if the difficultly of strapless waterstarts in waves would make it a stupid idea to foil strapless in waves? Alternatively, having straps means that I can't switch feet (dont have the skill level for that) and can only ride with my right foot back, so half of the rides will have to be done toeside.

Post pics of your creations guys!

I'm up to number 3 on the foil, and 3 on the mast !

Mast is taking about 3 hours to make and finish, and the one piece foil/fuselage/tail was about an hour, but had a few lightbulb moments during the process, going back to an adjustable / removable front & rear foil.

The foils were about 250Grams of glue, 1.5 meters by 80cm of carbon + the stuff in the laminate. Worked out about $200 - $300