100kg wavesailor wants to get planing in a bit less wind on the ****ty days. I get this idea in my head every few years, have a go and then give up as it feels funny with big fins and all that stuff. Anyway, back again doing the same but figured an easy board (Carve) and an easy sail (NCX) will be better than my previous dabbles with cams and freerace / slalom stuff. Might be able to rig up in less than 20mins and actually turn the farker

So I have
2011 (?) Carve 121L, 251x68, tail width at 30cm is 435mm, the cutouts are a bit smaller than what they do now I think.
7.5m NCX (thanks Jesse for a ripper deal)
40cm Drake slalom (gather its from a starboard that is more racey than the Carve, like iSonic or something)
38cm Drake freeride that is from one of the old Carves. Lots more chord than the above fin so undecided whats better for me.

So for the raceheads out there, what do you reckon my wind range is?
Which fin?
Umm, anything I have stuffed up or need to ponder...?

You might be sweet in 15 knts until you can go back on the wave gear with that combo.I would be in 10 knts

Seems a good setup for your weight for 15kts. Camless is the way to go for fun coastal sailing. Use the 40cm fin and leave the curvy one on the beach. Put the straps outboard and sail from the fin.

Mark,

Whats your biggest wave sail? That might work too if your against the 7.5NCX at first.

I have an old blue carve but its my high wind winter storm board at 94lts. Yeah I know its not that small.

Try your carve with a sail that you are already comfy with a couple of times, then once you're ok with the extra size take the NCX for a blast.

Let us all know how it goes.

I have a 9.0m2 Neil Pryde RAF Supersonic which you can have for $50 but you will need a 490cm mast and a 237 cm boom to run it. It is a camless sail and a light one at that, easy to rig, childs play for a man of your calibre. I believe you will plane in 13-15 knots with this sail. I managed to do so on a 120 litre board and am 95kg.

You got a good setup.drop a few kilos then you will be dialled.just my two cents

Absolutely not taking the piss here.

I lost around 6kg and it made such a difference in my lighter wind kiting days.

Do you recon you could get down to 92-93?kg?

@100 kilos , the 7.5 is your biggest sail ??
you must be a wave sailor ....
as an inland heavyweight sailor with MANY **itty days ...
go on a longboard with an 8.5 - goes from 10 - 20 knots
could NOT take a 120 liter board with a 7.5 on those days ...
water starts would not work and uphauling difficult, but not impossible
losing weight will make a BIG difference !!!
good luck n let us know
and keep on tryin

Mark _australia said..
As long as I can get planning I won't worry about baton tension

I thought 15 would be about my min for easy planing?

That's what I meant. Should be good to get planning with 15 knts (and a bit of pumping at the start).

I've been told that if I stopped drinking beer, I wouldn't need to get a bigger board.

Further to my earlier post, I originally thought I had misread your original post. Light wind set up, 100kg, 7.5m sail. What???

Only now realising that wave sailors have a totally different mindset with regard to sail size.

To a flat water sailor, 7.5m sail for a 100kg sailor is not large. I would have thought 8.5m to be the minimum if you are really looking to get going in lighter wind. (flat water, I guess you mean?)

Mark _australia said..
^^ Yes Harrow, I just figured out why everyone is assuming I mean under 15kn or something. I just meant to extend TOW when I can't quite go wavesailing. And I can't afford to buy much at the monet and especially for something that will be rarely used, so it is cobbled together over time.

I think I needed to word it better, just wanted to know if fin, sail and board sizes match. That's it.

Now it needs a mast - seeking severne SDM 460 a few years old - anyone?

Severne has 460 RDM masts (what I use).

Interesting take on freeride equipment.

Mark _australia said..
^^ Yes Harrow, I just figured out why everyone is assuming I mean under 15kn or something. I just meant to extend TOW when I can't quite go wavesailing. And I can't afford to buy much at the monet and especially for something that will be rarely used, so it is cobbled together over time.

I think I needed to word it better, just wanted to know if fin, sail and board sizes match. That's it.

Now it needs a mast - seeking severne SDM 460 a few years old - anyone?

Okay, I use a 7.4 on a 61cm wide 105 litre Tabou rocket with a 36cm fin.

It is pretty much the comfortable upper limit for the board, and I'm only 65kg.

At 100kg, as you know you'd need a bigger board for that size sail, and with the 68cm wide that you mention and 40cm fin, probably okay and getting near it's comfortable limit. Sounds a plausible setup, but not sure about the 15 knots, probably hang on once a stronger gust gets you onto the plane.

^^ thanks Panda.
I will never love it as loading the fin and going fast is fun for 10mins then the legs are buggered.
Soooo different to wavesailing muscles

Nah really, its different and cool, just that takes a while to get those lower leg muscles working when not used to it.

I have just dropped some weight. There are still days of 15-16kn with zero swell, why go schlogging out hoping for a wavesail, when u can plane on freeride stuff?
Besides it is also for a LOC plan (one day... sigh...)