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  Speedsurfingblog: On the edge is Exhausting

  Publicerad av rss på 7 maj, 2010 vid 16:10

  Windsurfing on the edge is exhausting, especially when you want to be competitive. My advice for good dayranking on gps-speedsurfing.com would be to stay in the middle when choosing gear. As known: heavy surfers need some bigger gear than lighter surfers. Also surfstyle and settings influence what is a normal sailsize for a windsurfer.

  Since sail manufactorers mainly focus on PWA we speedsurfers have to deal with a limited sailrange. Jumping from 5.5 to 6.2 to 7.0, for me it is clear on tight courses you have often to choose: to big or to small sail. Also you can be caught by surprise… how to perform well? To big is the safest bet for competition, but to small might have some oppurtunities which might lead to worldrecord speeds.

  To Big
  I am better in sailing to big compared to small, when sailing competitive a big sail/board/fin it means you can keep the gear on the water. To big means often more vertical lift (at least when everything is trimmed normal). If I get to much vertical lift there are I know plenty of solutions (depending on conditions). Often I make my harnasslines a bit longer to solve the lift problem. The exhausting part of sailing to big is all the forces being bigger.

  

  This photo (By William Breukelman) was token at Bad Hoophuizen, Falcon Speed+ RS:Slalom MK3 6.2+ Sonntag GPS_2 250. Very good wind at that specific moment, I guess 28-30kn gust.

  To Small
  When sailing competitive a small sail/board/fin it means you can create more vertical lift than usual.. To small means often less vertical lift (at least when everything is trimmed normal). Lately I am searching to get small gear flying, but till this point I am haven’t found the solution, did find and documented about 20 ways not to go faster ;). I still have a tiny little bit of hope to find it in surfstyle+tuning. The exhausting part of sailing to small is the difficulty to get the board flying, it takes much discipline for me (and therefor it is a good training). In competition so far it has never been possible for me to get small gear flying.

  

  This photo (by Rolf Aalders) was token in 10-14kn, I was sailing Falcon 91 liters+ RS:Slalom MK3 6.2+ Sonntag SL-S 34cm. Totally underpowered at any moment, biggest drag was definitly the board not able to fly at moments. See the sailangle decreasing a lot, this just to compromize in the total vertical lift picture. With this gear its possible to fly in those conditions, but it is a very very small sweetspot. I did this day a few runs around 30-31kn, feels different to go more than twice the windspeed. My hope is to translate this to smaller gear. The biggest problem is my smaller gear doesn’t function like I want, like I know how it should feel. This made me realize I should test as much as possible different gear, need some luck and lots of patience.
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