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Wingsurfing, Windfoiling, Wingfoiling, Wing SUP / Re: Hotel advice Hawaii please.

« on: December 26, 2022, 06:00:13 PM »

Looking at Maui or Oahu in july/August. Last in maui '86 and '89 windsurfing!

July August is when the wind is best.  Stay in Kihei/Makena.  I'd avoid the west side for wind sports.  The trades blast almost every day in the summer.  The west side of the island is dead in the lee of the trades.  It's usually violently offshore over there.

South shore is less well known for wind, but it's very good almost every day in the summer.  South shore starts later in the afternoon, usually about 2.  If you want to go earlier, drive over to Kanaha.

Here's a clip from last August - blasting over 40 on the south shore.  I had to pause and have a look at the shape of the waves, it was something else.  Wind usually shuts down at the beginning of Wailea, that's where we usually stop.  Makena landing is a longer run and usually more popular with the outriggers - alpha foilers.  The trades wrap all the way around Haleakala all summer.  If you go south from Wailea, you will get trades coming from the south.  That wind is what shuts down the wind in Kihei/Makena on a typical day.   

   

Here's a day in July, off and on wind gusting over 50.  So fun 

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Downwind and Racing / Re: Geezer Maliko

« on: December 21, 2022, 10:59:28 PM »

Here's a clip from the end of that run.  That was a pretty big day, chapeau for going.   



I avoided the ocean throughout the recent storm because of the brown water.  If I can see it on the cams, I don't bother driving down to see it in person.       

I went out today, that swell has some power.   It was breaking over the jetty wall at the Kihei boat ramp.  I almost got tagged coming back in.     

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Random / Re: Steampunk indeed

« on: December 21, 2022, 09:39:36 PM »

Whales are in town and should be jumping around soon.  Hope I get another one on video.

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Downwind and Racing / Re: Geezer Maliko

« on: December 20, 2022, 04:52:11 PM »

I'm always amazed how a GoPro camera can make mountains look like molehills.

Wow, 2013.  The 1080 days.  4K came out in '14. 

HM was the one that told us about fisheye - back in the Panasonic pocket cam days of '09. 

Your cam is set to 720 and at a wide angle - not ideal for what that cam could do. (You always had the best Gopros.)

I saved all my old raw files.  I knew I'd want to watch them in my old age - on better software and monitors.  Those days are here. 

I took some 2013 footage and rendered it thru new software and uploaded it with Youtube at 4k.  They compressed it, but not as bad as back then.     

Gopro is up to number 11 now - 5k.  I'll get one when I lose my 8.


 

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Sessions / Re: Cold Season 2022

« on: December 16, 2022, 10:39:44 PM »

Awesome video, love those tunes. 

This is a fascinating podcast on how our bodies deal with temperature.   

If you don't have time to watch it - soles of the feet, palms and upper facial area are the best surface to apply heat - to warm the core.

https://youtu.be/77CdVSpnUX4?t=4211

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Foil SUP / Re: Something new?

« on: December 02, 2022, 02:06:59 PM »

I don't foil, but I've listened as the gang worked up from the original big blue gofoil.   

Nowadays, it seems to me that increasing the useable range of speeds is going to be the limiting factor in the Gorge.  Those waves are steep.  You are going to want to stay up on foil and move around from wave to wave.     

As all you foilers are aware, you want lift at low speed to get up.  Dave's barracuda was a game changer.  It opened the door to an entire group of foil surfers (and wing dingers) that had given up on downwind paddle foiling.  They are rocking maliko runs now.  The barracuda allowed them to learn the initial liftoff timing in lumpy seas.  Then they quickly move to a 'faster' wing. 

The south shore of Maui is basically a wave pool.  Zero fetch, steep wave faces, max 0.5Hz frequency (2 second period).  From shore, we often see ribbons of waves, a single, unbroken trough easily reaching out over a half mile.  Just a bit of a chevron across the wave, but one line all the way out - just like that pool.  This is ideal for learning to downwind.

So, next step is they start pushing the top speeds.  Not because it's more fun - because it's easier to link glides. 

Nobody like pumping on foil.  'Slower' foils may lift easy, but they blow up pretty fast - even on the south shore.  Extra lift requires them to avoid steeper wave faces. Once in the trough, they need to pump and paddle out of it.   With a 'faster' foil, they effortlessly glide thru those troughs, up to the next wave.  If they choose to zoom down the face, the foil won't blow up.  They also have the option to carve the wave face.  Tail wings are a big deal, as you all are very aware.  The 2 second (max) 'swell' period is the key here, the overall speed isn't very fast.

So, next step for them is how to negotiate the north shore and it's warp speeds. Swell periods from the East top out at 10 seconds, which is spooky fast for mere mortals.    Most alpha girls won't go when it's too big and windy.   They don't have the weight to hold the nose down.  When they cross the crest to fade out the back of a big one, the wind can knock them over.  Guys just float down the road, like a bus.  Weigh is a big advantage in big wind, big maliko, Oc-1, ski and foil.  It hastens the zoom down to a high top speed, momentum prolongs it.           

So, next up for foiling at a nuthouse like the Gorge is speed brakes.  That's what we do in boats.  I broke several paddles braking in my Oc-1.  Thankfully, ski wing are much stronger.     

Mechanical brakes.  Probably won't take much to open up a wide range of practical lift.  Fast forward to 6:46 if youtube doesn't.

https://youtu.be/O22eHzc8yl0?t=406

Gorge is crazy steep.  Almost too big for boats.  Almost.



   

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Foil SUP / Re: Something new?

« on: December 02, 2022, 08:56:28 AM »

That would be a blast to see, but you'd still need to instrument the heck out of the foils to get good data.

Or, one could skip all that and just jump in and start testing foils.  We did a run Wednesday in conditions that pool can easily match. 

That gang I tag along with (I'm in ski) is remarkably foil brain damaged.  They go when it's light whitecaps on the south shore.  No wingdings, just paddles.  No excessive pumping like those aliens on flat water.  Several rest stops, (because they had foil surfed Ka'a that morning).  The girls were on foils relative in size to the 899.  All on Barracudas, of course. The foils Randy and Chan will be using would tear that pool up.   

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Foil SUP / Re: Something new?

« on: December 02, 2022, 07:21:32 AM »

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Foil SUP / Re: Something new?

« on: December 01, 2022, 10:06:02 PM »

and as if that was not enough...

I have a friend that works at this place.  She said nobody will be around Christmas day.  We can sneak in and test foils.  I promised not to break anything.  Ha ha. 

Foil models look amazing. 

 

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Foil SUP / Re: Foil Videos

« on: October 28, 2022, 05:30:48 PM »

Thanks Clay, wonderful message about community.     

  https://youtu.be/_BvNcGzl-zQ?t=2065
 

 
 

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The Shape Shack / Re: Foaming Epoxy Additive - supplier?

« on: October 07, 2022, 11:04:10 AM »

http://www.uscomposites.com/foam.html

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The Shape Shack / Re: Downwinder Pintail Board Specs

« on: April 08, 2022, 11:15:39 AM »

Great view of Jeremy Riggs' pin tail here and how narrow that board is!

https://youtube.com/shorts/PcVYWYCnaag?feature=share

Here's another view. 

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Random / Re: Omicron is here

« on: January 16, 2022, 05:19:14 PM »

I agree with everyone here. 



Here's why.

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/vaccine-aristocrats-strike-again?r=85nzj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Taibbi has been my go to for many years.  As usual, just follow the money. 

Rogan's spotify interview of Robert Malone (true vaccine expert) has over 50 million views.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3SCsueX2bZdbEzRtKOCEyT

This site gets too sensational for my taste.  However, this lawyer is the real thing. 



He stood up to Yale at 19 and won.  Now, he's suing big corporations on the Covid 'mandates'. 

He knows employer/employee law and how to respond if you are stuck between a rock and a hard place.

     

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Random / Re: Ready for the Metaverse?

« on: January 12, 2022, 08:14:49 AM »

Hi LPB,
/snip/ Cambria  /snip/ Apple /snip/
I would wait for one of those two.

Thanks Randy, I'm not signed up with Facebook, so the Cambria is out.
The pic of the Apple is tempting, but it has to be tethered to an Iphone, so I can't do that either. 

I'm all in with Google.  Phone, ISP, browser, GSuite and email etc.  Linking all that crap up years ago has saved me countless hours.  Dirt cheap too.   
 
I'm going to stick to the commercial VR stuff.  I'm still working and thrilled at what's coming thru from Autodesk. 

Jeebus, VR in medicine is mind blowing.  That Varjo site is worth looking around in just for the tiny clips on anatomy.  That really cheers me up.  Hugely optimistic as I get into my 60's. 

Kurzweil says we are on track for Turing test by 2030 and the big kahuna in 2045.  Woo hoo!     

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Random / Re: Ready for the Metaverse?

« on: January 06, 2022, 07:58:58 AM »

Varjo Aero is on my short list. 

I like their extensive commercial background.

Any reason to wait for something similar to drop soon?

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Foil SUP / Re: Something new?

« on: December 01, 2022, 10:06:02 PM »

and as if that was not enough...

I have a friend that works at this place.  She said nobody will be around Christmas day.  We can sneak in and test foils.  I promised not to break anything.  Ha ha. 

Foil models look amazing. 

 

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Foil SUP / Re: Foil Videos

« on: October 28, 2022, 05:30:48 PM »

Thanks Clay, wonderful message about community.     

  https://youtu.be/_BvNcGzl-zQ?t=2065
 

 
 

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The Shape Shack / Re: Foaming Epoxy Additive - supplier?

« on: October 07, 2022, 11:04:10 AM »

http://www.uscomposites.com/foam.html

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The Shape Shack / Re: Downwinder Pintail Board Specs

« on: April 08, 2022, 11:15:39 AM »

Great view of Jeremy Riggs' pin tail here and how narrow that board is!

https://youtube.com/shorts/PcVYWYCnaag?feature=share

Here's another view. 

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Random / Re: Omicron is here

« on: January 16, 2022, 05:19:14 PM »

I agree with everyone here. 



Here's why.

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/vaccine-aristocrats-strike-again?r=85nzj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Taibbi has been my go to for many years.  As usual, just follow the money. 

Rogan's spotify interview of Robert Malone (true vaccine expert) has over 50 million views.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3SCsueX2bZdbEzRtKOCEyT

This site gets too sensational for my taste.  However, this lawyer is the real thing. 



He stood up to Yale at 19 and won.  Now, he's suing big corporations on the Covid 'mandates'. 

He knows employer/employee law and how to respond if you are stuck between a rock and a hard place.

     

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Random / Re: Ready for the Metaverse?

« on: January 12, 2022, 08:14:49 AM »

Hi LPB,
/snip/ Cambria  /snip/ Apple /snip/
I would wait for one of those two.

Thanks Randy, I'm not signed up with Facebook, so the Cambria is out.
The pic of the Apple is tempting, but it has to be tethered to an Iphone, so I can't do that either. 

I'm all in with Google.  Phone, ISP, browser, GSuite and email etc.  Linking all that crap up years ago has saved me countless hours.  Dirt cheap too.   
 
I'm going to stick to the commercial VR stuff.  I'm still working and thrilled at what's coming thru from Autodesk. 

Jeebus, VR in medicine is mind blowing.  That Varjo site is worth looking around in just for the tiny clips on anatomy.  That really cheers me up.  Hugely optimistic as I get into my 60's. 

Kurzweil says we are on track for Turing test by 2030 and the big kahuna in 2045.  Woo hoo!     

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Random / Re: Ready for the Metaverse?

« on: January 06, 2022, 07:58:58 AM »

Varjo Aero is on my short list. 

I like their extensive commercial background.

Any reason to wait for something similar to drop soon?