Turbaani wrote: ↑Mon Oct 30, 2017 9:43 am
Pedro Marcos wrote: ↑Sun Oct 29, 2017 8:05 pm
About 15 sessions with my Ozone Chrono V2 Ultralight 15m, swim count still in zero. The kite still keeps flying when ive no power to waterstart at all, so ill just bodydrag/kiteloop to the beach.
What its possible to not have enough power to foil and still have kite flying?? I didnt know that was possible. There isnt much reviews about the chrono UL. What are your thoughts on it?
Definitely, I have never experienced myself, or seen it with a foil kite, that it was not possible to ride when it could be kept in the air though.
Only when using too short lines, or racewings, I have seen the good ones being able to "hang" in the air, but not sufficient to ride.
With good (light) LEI kites it is more pronounced - these can often hang in less wind than possible to ride.
The answer is "YES, you can fly the kites in less wind than you can ride", pretty often
When hydrofoiling started, then we said the first years: "As long as a kite can hang in the air, you can ride".
This is not true anymore, the new foil and strutless LEIs has pushed the "hang" limit a lot
PF