I hadn't realized that the Vancouver lifeguards aren't working due to Covid until walking my dog on Kits beach yesterday. Once I did it was time for a sunny and warm Tolmie St. session.
Lots of wind foilers out at first. A few kite foilers and a few TTers flailing.
A couple questions for the wind foilers:
1) They all seemed to go in once the wind dropped down to 11-12 knots, was that because they needed bigger sails? A bit later a guy on a red wind foil rig was ripping around in the light wind
2) It seemed like all the wind foilers were just kind of tacking back and forth in a NW line out of Jericho. I'm curious why they don't go more places like we do when kite foiling? One of the big draws of a foil for me is the ability to go 2 km up or down wind with ease. Also my favorite thing to do kite foiling is to ride up to the east dolphin and then surf the bumps over the sandbar back down to Jericho. Is the reason wind foilers prefer that NW line off Jericho because it's more 45 degrees to the wind instead of straight downwind?