stevez wrote: ↑Sun Jan 13, 2019 1:22 pm
It would be interesting to see what sort of speeds you're clocking, or are required to keep up with the wave. Do you have a GPS?
The pure surf wings, used without kites, reportedly max out around 40 km/h (
https://www.oceanaddicts.com.au/hydrofo ... mpetition/)
Cross off is a good direction when you're riding down the line, but if you're riding straight in the direction of the wave, you're riding upwind, which means hard to go fast and a lot of pull from the kite.
Other angles may work better.
I have this data for several sessions in Cabarete on both a Moses 590 and Liquid Force Impulse wing. For example you can look at this link:
https://www.strava.com/activities/2058040133/analysis
That's recorded on the LF impulse wing in relatively small waves (3-4 feet). If you zoom in you can see where I head out and then "hook" back int othe top of waves (a bunch of 180 degree turns at the top/north of the area I was riding. You can see me approaching a wave as ~11 knots and then turning around and accelerating to ~14 knots as I accelerate on the wave.
Similarly, here's a track on the Moses 590:
https://www.strava.com/activities/2053783939/analysis
You can see similar acceleration, but the absolute numbers are higher. Acceleration from 14 knots on approach to 17 on a wave is one example. These waves were bigger, too -- in the 6-8 foot range.
Once I come down the wave face at these speeds, I'm easily outrunning the wave.
The conditions aren't identical as for plummet, but I don't know if anyone else has any actual wavefoiling data to share.