Pedro Marcos wrote: ↑Sun Mar 25, 2018 3:22 pm
For me the 633 is way too slow and draggy to be my "all around" hidrofoil. Yes it is fun in waves and when the conditions do not allow to go much faster anyway (very choppy conditions etc), but in my opinion people that limit themselfes to this combo are missing a big part of the "fun" in the hidrofoil world. I do understand how nice it can be to beginners/new intermediates as it completly reduces your "stalls" to zero or near that.
My words exactly Pedro, with these sizes (not aiming specifically at this wing) in general, I also find they get very boring even from over 800 cm2
And I am a rider that dont like speed at all, only fun and sometimes waves - but still find the big wings very limited fun, eventhough they DO have their place in marginal winds (the high AR ones), and in waves when low winds (the low AR ones).
For overall use I dont like these huge sizes at all, and the major part of effortless gliding along with nothing holding you back, gets lost.
Difficult to put in words, this difference/feeling
Apparently just different likings, and I might be spoiled from having flown so many performance gliders, eventhough my "way of riding" could have been the aim for these extremely big wings - but they dont work for me...
It seems to be the general trend though, huge wings, so lets see over time how it goes.
PF