- Le Thrust XL
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- Just sailed to church on Sundays...
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Got a cherry Mistral Explosion locally on CL that is barely entering its teen years
For a foil the Naish XL Thrust SUP foil, one of the largest available in 2019, yet now Naish has released even larger ones for 2020! It will do double-duty for both windfoiling and kitefoiling for me.
A Powerplate from Windance marries the two; for some reason Naish decided to flout industry standard and go for smaller mounting bolts than Slingshot/F-One/virtually anyone making a foil these days, so had to drill out the Abracadabra (Naish’s term
) quick-mount plate so it would accept the larger bolts that thread into the tapped Powerplate base.
Ideally a second quick-release Yabba-Dabba-Cadabra plate would sit on a kitefoil board allowing a quick transfer of the foil between the two without having to mount/remount the foil, esp once I find the sweet spot in terms of foil position.
The Achilles heel of this set-up is of course the single-bolt Powerbox screw holding all this into a board that was not designed to have this much weight or stress on its hindquarters. Fortunately the board is rather, shall we say, robust through the hips and tail so fairly confident it will hold up. Have a tether system set up similar to what Adam posted a while back, yet mine attaches directly to both the Powerplate (in case of single-pin failure) and also looped around the base of the foil just in case the quick-release Shamma-Ca-Blamma plate decides to unbolt/release from the Powerplate on the underside (doubtful, but worth the extra insurance).
Tether is new kite line extension screwed into a foot strap insert on the top of the board.
