Here's my first flatwater speed attempt:
Max 2 second average: 36.7km/h
Gear: 3.6m Naish, Axis 1000/400/75cm, 6'4" Sunova
Wind: 20-25knots
Location: Swan river, WA
Try again tomorrow!!
Select to expand quotebaldy123 said..
Here's my first flatwater speed attempt:
Max 2 second average: 36.7km/h
Gear: 3.6m Naish, Axis 1000/400/75cm, 6'4" Sunova
Wind: 20-25knots
Location: Swan river, WA
Try again tomorrow!!
How much fun was that out there today hey?
I saw you get some great downwind runs with the wing just floating and I got a few beauties myself.
I purposely did a screaming downwind run to see what speed I could get. Ended up in a high speed breach and stack ??
Only to get in and discover my gps was off. 
We did a time trial GPS race in Hawaii Kai last week, the goal was to complete 3 miles in the shortest total time, my best time was 10 minutes, average speed was 17.6 mph= 28.3 kph
I was using a 5'2 Blue Planet Carver foilboard, Levitaz shaka foil with 96 cm mast, 4M Duotone wing.
My max speed was higher (23 mph= 37 kph) during my first three runs using a 5M Duotone but I was not able to complete the 3 miles without falling in smooth water with strong offshore wind, around 15-25 knots. Using a 4M wing was easier to control so although top speed was a little lower I was able to finish without falling in, resulting in the fastest average time on the 3 mile course.
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Select to expand quotebaldy123 said..
Here's my first flatwater speed attempt:
Max 2 second average: 36.7km/h
Gear: 3.6m Naish, Axis 1000/400/75cm, 6'4" Sunova
Wind: 20-25knots
Location: Swan river, WA
Try again tomorrow!!
Nice, what was your peak speed? 36.7 is a quick 2 sec, good 10 sec too! 
Ride safe,
JB
Select to expand quoteblueplanetsurf said..
We did a time trial GPS race in Hawaii Kai last week, the goal was to complete 3 miles in the shortest total time, my best time was 10 minutes, average speed was 17.6 mph= 28.3 kph
I was using a 5'2 Blue Planet Carver foilboard, Levitaz shaka foil with 96 cm mast, 4M Duotone wing.
My max speed was higher (23 mph= 37 kph) during my first three runs using a 5M Duotone but I was not able to complete the 3 miles without falling in smooth water with strong offshore wind, around 15-25 knots. Using a 4M wing was easier to control so although top speed was a little lower I was able to finish without falling in, resulting in the fastest average time on the 3 mile course.
connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/4861721009
Interesting distance to pick. I'll see if I can extract a 3 mile (4.82km) average.
JB
Select to expand quoteJB said..baldy123 said..
Here's my first flatwater speed attempt:
Max 2 second average: 36.7km/h
Gear: 3.6m Naish, Axis 1000/400/75cm, 6'4" Sunova
Wind: 20-25knots
Location: Swan river, WA
Try again tomorrow!!
Nice, what was your peak speed? 36.7 is a quick 2 sec, good 10 sec too!
Ride safe,
JB
Hey JB,
My max speed was 41.5km/h.
Recorded using an iPhone on the Waterspeed app.
These stats are from my first one hour session before the wind went ballistic!!
Thinking i'll try a smaller thinner tail wing next to gain a little more speed out of my current setup.
Stoked with the range on that 3.6m S25 wing, held together rock solid in some serious storm gusts yesterday!!
37 mph? Spike? Need to download the logs and analyze for GPS errors. 37 mph on a wing ding would be quite exhilarating. :)
Wow, 37mph. Yeah, looking at the picture think it may be inertia going into a stack/crash. Looks like there is water hitting the board???
But Alex is a legend so could be legit. Would like to see the footage to see either side of the peak.
Bring on the speed kids. I wanna see some fast runs.
On another note, I was speaking with some of the Windsurfers yesterday, and they asked why we talk KMH and not KN. Maybe a change to KN is needed to be relevant to the Windsurfers??
regards,
JB
Select to expand quoteWindgenuity said..On another note, I was speaking with some of the Windsurfers yesterday, and they asked why we talk KMH and not KN. Maybe a change to KN is needed to be relevant to the Windsurfers??
regards,
JB
It sounds faster and we need all the help we can get 
at least that's only 2 options, in hang gliding we used to measure height in feet , speed in knots, distance travelled in kilometers and lift and sink rate in feet per minute ...... at least Lift/ sink has now changed to meters/ sec
Select to expand quoteWindgenuity said..
Wow, 37mph. Yeah, looking at the picture think it may be inertia going into a stack/crash. Looks like there is water hitting the board???
But Alex is a legend so could be legit. Would like to see the footage to see either side of the peak.
Bring on the speed kids. I wanna see some fast runs.
On another note, I was speaking with some of the Windsurfers yesterday, and they asked why we talk KMH and not KN. Maybe a change to KN is needed to be relevant to the Windsurfers??
regards,
JB
www.instagram.com/p/CEmomFzjkR7/?igshid=f5tbq8xrckcg
There's another video showing real time speed
Select to expand quotehilly said..Windgenuity said..On another note, I was speaking with some of the Windsurfers yesterday, and they asked why we talk KMH and not KN. Maybe a change to KN is needed to be relevant to the Windsurfers??
regards,
JB
It sounds faster and we need all the help we can get
I agree, that's why I like it 
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Plus it is way harder to push an extra knot than an extra KMH
LOL
JB
A bit of speed winging today in the westerly. My goal was to get over 45kmh, which I am stoked to have done on 2 runs. Now to start working on getting to 50kmh.
