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09/12/2016: "Foiling fun Holloways Beach Cairns"

One of the advantages of foiling is that the apparent wind builds early and the increased speed and reduced drag means you achieve lift off in much lighter winds. I am 93kg and normally sail a 12m kite and need 14 plus knots to really get moving. On the foil I am underway at 8-10 knots of wind and using an 8m kite - often depowered (so I could go smaller but do not have one...).
To the kite sailors looking at this blog all this will make sense. The rest will just have to put up with my enthusiasm for another challenge which helps 'feed the rat'.