North Sails Zeta 3.7m² sail

 In February 2024, my middle son's girlfriend showed an interest in going windsurfing on the ice and snow. It was my wife's 65th birthday and Litchi watched me reach 29kph in 15-22kph south winds on my ice sled using a SailWorks Hucker 6.6m² bump n jump sail 😏

Unfortunately for her, I was lacking my smaller sails, masts and booms ...

So, when I went to water my plants back home, I picked up masts, booms and sails ...

Apparently I purchased this sail from AuVentFou in 2006 to be used as a learner sail. That shop has been closed since  the summer of 2019.  

The ONLY windsurf shop left near Montreal is WindSpirit

In the past I have used this sail on the ice, but never on the water ...

In that picture it looks like downhaul is lacking and far too much outhaul 

In February of 2024, I set the mast extension to 4cm and downhauled fully

The cap extension is at 28cm/almost one foot
Guess we could use a 370cm mast !!

The minimum outhaul on the pink boom is better too

All in all, I don't think the sail looks too bad lol

It even has a decent pocket for power and a small leach for when over-powered !

 Tried the sail on rough ice and 20-30kph W gusty winds... Felt like the pocket was not pulling enough = need less outhaul ... It just was not comfortable tho ...

On 01MAR2024 the winds were more like 15-23kph SSW intermittent and gusty, butt is tolerable lol. I put 2 cm more downhaul and a little tighter outhaul. Felt pretty good for such a small sail in light wind on ice with a 210+ pound guy !!!

My NS Zeta does not seem to show this info ...

Since my mast is 400 cm ... mast extension should be zero (and not 4-6cm).
Which means I need to extend the mast cap just a little bit more ...
It seems one wants mast extension or cap & NOT both !!
 

Summer Plan for 2024

I start every year by doing the "window shopping" and looking ... 

This year I have been looking at windfoiling, but only found one or two interesting used "packages" and they are well over $1000. That would mean selling one or two of my fave boards --> like the JP SLW92 and/or the AHD SL1 140 ☹️.

So, in order to cheer myself up, I analyzed my current stock ...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/

Up north I have the Mistral Equipe II / MEQ II, BIC SL200 and the Mistral SLE. I was thinking of bringing the GA Swift 10-oh + MS 510 mast + HP/MS carbon boom up north for the MEQ ... 

When Victor comes from Georgia (or others wanna try windsurfing), there will be the BIC SL200 + GA Flow-3 seven-oh sail + NP CC mast and the old HSM SPF red boom. Speaking of the HSM SPF 8.5 = is it dead now ?? The MauiSails Global 5-oh can always be brought up north as it is all small equipment. 

Funny to be thinking of Summer 2024 Windsurfing when we are only in February, but it has been unseasonably warm this winter man !!

After watching MANY videos and looking at many kits ... I am probably better off just improving my skills and techniques this summer !!