Not enough speed + local tour guide

[shesha]

Hi,

Tis been a while, question on the sail once again, I have a feeling that the sail is still not setup right.

I am windsurfing alright no more falls apart from getting exhausted when the wind picks up.

Problems

1- Alot of wind but speed is very slow, I feel with the amount of wind available I should be getting a good amount of speed, instead the starboard is just drifting along, as oppossed to riding the waves I sort of crash into them instead of hopping them.

2- I have to restle with the sail most of the time to keep it in control, then I find the perfect balance angle with the amount of wind blowing and a few seconds later I have to go back to the basic start position because I sheeted in too much.

3- Last weekend the wind was along 22km-25km but sailing speed as about 3 or 4km an hour.

Any tips on this subject would help.

I feel that there is too much downhaul now that I have the rigging winch, the sail is very flat regardless of the wind blowig in it, viewing some windsurfing magazines I see that most the windsurfers have the sails bulging out from the wind blowing into them nearly hitting the other end of the boom, is this correct?

Please help, I am turing into Arnold schwarznager.

P.S. anyone visitig Kuwait can email on shesha@shesha.net maybe go windsurfing together, or provide them with a local tour.

Cheers

[sukhdev]

Hi,

re the sail : it should not really bulge out alot, the foil should be smooth with all the battens aligned with the mast for the lower battens and behind the mast for the top battens.

From what you say, looks like you are having to use a lot of force to handle the rig. this means the pull from the rig is getting dissipated and not being used to drive the board.

this is going to be hard to sort out by email, perhaps you can call me sometime and i'll talk you through some stance & setup changes.

keep at it, the initial phases are a steep hill to climb.

best regards