then for the foils you're going to want
to basically take lift off the foils
which means move the head of the foils
forward, the main foil sort of rough
terms if you weigh 175 pounds if you
weigh more you're going to wait longer
to take lift off foils, when the lulls are
12 knots I moved from the third pin to
the second pin when the lulls are 18
knots I move from the second pin to the
first pin, which is all the way forward,
and I say lulls for this from a race
tuning perspective you're always
trying to set your boat up to foil all
the time and you basically just deal
with it
when it's you know trying to jump out of
the water in a 20 puff even when you're
set up predicted to not blow more than
fifteen or sixteen that being said if it
truly is blowing like we had one day
where the top gust was like 22 and you
can barely foil at points during the
race it was like 6 to 22
remember that easterly day at Newport it
was SuperDuper puffy, from a racing
perspective the correct move was to set
your boat up as if it was blowing 6 to 10
knots, it made your boat basically
impossible to sail in the puffs, but
you got basically you can get so far
ahead and then just like capsized in a
puff that it kind of worked but if
you're out recreationally sailing you
can totally just be like okay I'm not
gonna foil until a puff of at least 14
knots comes through
- I'm only going to surf the waves
and so if
you're set up to only you know in 14 knot
plus puffs, put yourself in the second
pin hole you can even put yourself in
the first pin hole because you can
launch in the first pin hole and 12
knots don't have to but it's kind of
like trying to launch at 8 knots you
know you you're basically making the
boat super marginal so one of the things
particularly when it's puffy is you can
detune the boat and make it tougher for
yourself to foil but also way more
relaxed and comfortable once you are up on
the foils and that's just sort of a
choice you can make
you can make the boat in twelve knots of
breeze feel like its blowing eight, just by
detuning the foils in and detuning the rig
okay so we went through the main
foil, so they're going one pin forward at
a time from the third pin to the first
pin you're a bigger guy I know James
Blake likes the fourth kid and I think
for marginal conditions I will at eight
to ten sail and the fourth pin hole back
the problem is is that I can usually get
launched in those conditions in the
third pin hole and I can carry the third
pin all comfortably up to about 16 knots
the fourth pin hole I can't really carry
above 12 knots so yeah I did the fourth pin hole in the fort battery race because I
was having trouble getting the boat to foil
and it got so bad and I kept ventilating
capsizing at the end of the race I
stopped changed my main foil settings in
the middle of the race and then finished
because it was just like this is the
only way I'm going to get across the
finish line this was a really important
decision I made before the race started
and honestly if I had stopped two
minutes into the race I would have done
so much better I just you know it was
like no I'm gonna hold on to it I'm
gonna hold on to it this race is you
know five miles on foils it only takes
15 to 20 minutes like just hang on until
the end but the breeze came up really
quickly and there was no no hanging on
to that fourth pin hole
following with the rudder so when you're
when you're moving your main foil
forward one pin hole, expect to take at least
one full turn off the rudder, maybe two full
turns and to some degree when I'm
resetting the boat I move the pinhole
forward I sort of guess to what I
want to take off the rudder I sail
I see if I'm bow up or bow down and then
I adjust my rudder to get the boat level
you know if I'm bow up, I add
rudder lift which is turning the wheel
to starboard, if I'm bow down I reduce
rudder lift, which is turning the wheel
to port, and I get the boat so it will
foil level again
the other trick here is where your
rudder lift you move around a lot more
than your main foil lift so that you can
stay in a certain pinhole so if I'm in
3rd pinhole and the breeze starts to
increase what will happen is the boat
will start to just lift up and go bow up
and just launched out of the water and
what you can do to hold on the third
pinhole is you know up you know all the
way up to about 16 knots is where I
think it's sort of comfortable to hold
on to that for someone my weight you
want to be adding rudder lift to keep
knocking the bow back down, and what ends up happening is you have the foil
sort of working against each other to
some degree the main foil sort of
lifting the bow off and the rudder foils
pushing it back down and keeping you
pitch stable and you end up in a point
where like the rudder is pushing your
bow down the main foil is pushing your bow
up and to some degree a certain amount
of their lift to sort of counteracting
each other and that's how you hold on to
basically a certain main foil AOA
setting higher up the breeze rate as you
keep adding on rudder lift, now
you will get to a point where you add on
rudder lift and the boat sort of gets
nose down but just keeps rising and the
whole thing comes out of the water, or
you ventilate your rudder which you will
know when you ventilate your rudder
because the boat will spin out and chuck you uh-huh
versus like main foil ventilation the
boat just sort of goes nose down really
quickly like you the the bubble gets
sucked down to the main foil you lose
all lift and sort of nose dive, rudder
ventilation is quite a lot more violent
and the boat will spin out
a lot of the time, like the stern will just go
downwind and you'll get shot, so when
you start getting to that where your
nose down but the boat still is like
getting high enough to flick the line
forward that's a sign that you should
have moved forward a pinhole on your main flap.
so its got so much angle of attack, theres only so much speed that it can get,
out of the windspeed, that its generating velocities which are lifting beyond the controls,
the controls can't stop you from going higher and higher and higher
yeah so that's it basically if your bows
coming up but your stern staying low you
can add sort of rudder angle to get the
boat level if you just are all the way
out wand flicks forward and the whole
boat is just like trying to fly straight
up out of the water that's a sign reduce
main foil lift, reduce rudder lift, to just
overall have less angle of attack,
across both foils and then you can start
playing your rudder again as the breeze
moves up and down and this new sort of
regime range
