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 !!
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