sofiamullen said..
Yeah!! Will foiling take on or not?

Foils have been in dinghies for longer than they have been in windsurfers, and so far the actual take-up is pretty tiny apart from around Sydney and in the south of England. There's about 20-40 active foiling dinghy sailors in Germany, the same number in Switzerland, probably not many more in the USA, not many in France.

I quite enjoyed the little foiling I did and the boats are fantastic, but the hype is enormously greater than the take-up. It's interesting to see that almost none of the sailing journalists and pundits who are screeching "foiling is the future" have actually gone out and bought a boat for themselves. That seems to say a lot.

Obviously foiling is here to stay, but it could be like FW or skiff sailing - something that's really cool and fun but just a minority interest.

Today I got to try Wind Foiling. And can I say - WOW. SO much fun. I can't wait for session #2.

The conditions.
Wind - SW. 6 - 13kts
Location - Pittwater, Palm Beach, NSW
Foil - Naish Malolo
Board - Naish Raptor V116 (M).
Rider Weight - 95kg

Firstly, there is no way I would have been planing on any sailboard in these conditions. It wasn't the greatest wind, and was very gusty, but I managed to get a few decent glides. Here is the footage I edited for Instagram (short edit).



Ride safe,

JB

How long were you out and no probs not using the harness for the session

The sound of silence today first attempt since september...way cool with a dedicated affordable windsurf foil

Sunova make windsurfing boards for foiling!?

Stev0 said..
Sunova make windsurfing boards for foiling!?

Shhhh

www.windsurf.co.uk/robby-naish-light-wind-foiling-explained/

jimbob SA said..
www.windsurf.co.uk/robby-naish-light-wind-foiling-explained/

How cool is that!!

Robby that looks so much fun.

It would be interesting to see how low you can go with light wind windfoiling. The problem with light wind kite foiling is that if you crash your kite you are swimming in. Chasing extreme light wind can mean mega expensive foil kites that get water logged if they stay too long on the water.

A floatable, uphaulable windfoil would let you wait out lulls or chug back into shore.

TASSIEROCKS said..

jimbob SA said..
www.windsurf.co.uk/robby-naish-light-wind-foiling-explained/

How cool is that!!

Robby that looks so much fun.

Mmm thinking about it ??

jimbob SA said..

TASSIEROCKS said..

jimbob SA said..
www.windsurf.co.uk/robby-naish-light-wind-foiling-explained/

How cool is that!!

Robby that looks so much fun.

Mmm thinking about it ??

James, wonder how they go with weed like you have, or is this just Ocean and no weed type sailing?

How deep/long is the NP RS:Flight AL mast?

Yves said..
How deep/long is the NP RS:Flight AL mast?

85cm

The are about4.6kg.

Apparently they are quite fast, but they look like they may be designed for bigger sails - ?7.8m

It would be good if they put in a sail range,

I am interested in the ones designed for smaller sails - robby was on a 4.7 in that video!

Can't seem to find any specs on the Naish windsurf hover board, like width and length etc. there only seems to be the volume .
anybody know?