Will be at the new winging spot Thursday!
eta 8am

Plan cancelled last minute but wind gusts still showing

Foiling questions.
What sail size do you use in 10-15 mph winds?
Is it ok to use 9.5m?
Ed

At your weight I’d try a 7.5 first.
You’ll be surprised once you get up in a gust how little it takes to stay up.

Okay, rigging 7.5 at Vans

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What sail size do you use in 10-15 mph winds?

Friday might be interesting.

Interesting picture Ed. It does look like as of the time you posted it, Vanns had no rain. Meanwhile, at almost the same time Tidwell had it's own private storm cell which just hung there for an hour (or maybe longer? I got tired of waiting since I was drenched). U of North GA showed almost a half inch of rain starting around 10:15. I think I can see some rain coming down in the distance in the photo.

I made it out by 9 and the wind was fairly weak, but very it quickly picked upy. I Wingfoiled with a 4.5+Foil Drive - mostly just to help take off, with foiling powered by the wing only. That worked quite well until the wind really picked up. After several crashes I decided to come in and rest hoping for more "user friendly" wind....The rain had other ideas and so I packed up and called it a day.

8:30 Vanns: no white caps but ripples and small movements in the trees with occasional gusts. Hopefully it will come up by the time I am done with a meeting at 9-9:30. I will rig 8. If you’re webguy or Langdon, probably 5.2? 😂

10:30 update: wind sports in Atlanta suck!! 😂🤪

Ran the 4m wing at Tidwell this morning and had more power than I needed from about 9:50 til 11:00. Would have stayed in longer if I didn’t have other obligations. Almost didn’t bother going based on Gilmers wind readings, but Alliance Academy was reporting 16mph and that changed my mind. Saw the speed boats upwind being chased by a helicopter while I was out there.

Al