Stringy Foil

[g00mbs]

I'm interested in chatting to riders about their experience with Stringy foils. I normally ride 3rd, Coyote, and Alameda. If you ride a Slingy foil, feel free to shoot me a PM.

I'm contemplating switching from to Jim's foils, just haven't ridden one.

Thanks!

[TomAUSTRIA]

I used to have one. Not sure if there are now different types of the Stringy foil, but the one I had was super easy to learn on and drama-free to ride. Don't have too much experience on other foils, but the ones I tried so far were more finicky to deal with (although they had other advantages like being faster).

[CdoG]

Yah
What kind of range can you get?
Say take off and top end speed
What kite sizes do you like for low wind?
What board do you use with it ?
And then how heavy is that foil ?
And what mast do you use with it?

[jaxonholer]

I'm not sure what range I get, I can only really compare it to my Sroka, which I still really like. They are very comparable in speed, so probably lower-medium fast. The advantage of this low speed is the ability to foil with very little wind. I want to say my Stringy will plane sooner than the sroka, I can pump the board and get up with very little wind, this is way more important for me than speed. Trust me, it's plenty fast if you're coming from a twin tip or directional, but if you're coming from a nice Alpine foil or faster, you may find it slow.

I want a foil that will get me out on the water on the super light days. Many foils can achieve this, for sure, but the slow foils are way more user friendly, but I'm a little uninformed on the race foils, I'm sure some of those race guys can foil in lighter wind than me. Some of those guys are pros, so they can do anything better than me! If you just want to cruise and really enjoy the light winds of Alameda, get a slow foil and enjoy.

As for the Stringy, the defining characteristic is the turning. It's very loose, so when you get good at it, you can do super smooth, quick turns. And when you start tacking/ gybing, you can go so slow, as described above, which makes the manuvers that much easier to do. The slow foil helps you progress so much faster. It's hard get comfortable riding toeside at 30 miles an hour.

My mast is the Liqiud Force that the wings came with and the board is a wakeskate I mounted.

Charlie - this is the same foil you saw me fail on at alameda with that homemade board. Now I went wakeskate and loving life. I weigh 145, 9 is my smallest, I fly clouds. I don't know the weights of anything, it's pretty heavy...

[CdoG]

Im looking at getting a stringy ! Just for the turn of it
Im thinking about putting it on a slingshot mast ...
Jim says that the L.F mast is the lightest.but hes out of stock.he can mount the fuselage on ss lf or manta aka thekitefoil masts
Im not sure the wait will be an issue for me till i know what im doing
Have you got a pucture of your wake skate ?

[Aloha]

Unless you're racing I think the benefits of low-aspect outweigh the drawback(?) of lower speed

I'm with jaxon - Being able to just dive the kite then ollie off surface tension in no wind is a great feeling

And it's way easier to do powered surfboard style bottom turn carving with a low aspect foil

[jaxonholer]

Aloha! Good seeing you in the street downtown yesterday. Shoulda been the beach...

Attached is the rig, I drilled it straight though, found the flattest spot I could about 6 inches off the tail. I don't take the foil off, it stays on there always. More awkward in the car, but its faster to get on the water.

The board is a 144 Liquid Force Reflex. Has a lot of rocker and concavity, all of which I like. The whole thing is pretty heavy, doing it all again I'd prolly go 2-4 inches shorter, but overall I'm very happy with it.

[CdoG]

Ya that looks nice ...but so did the board you made!
I hope to be able to ride something like that someday.

[g00mbs]

Unless you're racing I think the benefits of low-aspect outweigh the drawback(?) of lower speed

I'm with jaxon - Being able to just dive the kite then ollie off surface tension in no wind is a great feeling

And it's way easier to do powered surfboard style bottom turn carving with a low aspect foil

Agreed. Foiling is not just for speed, but many people view it as just that. The same thing can be said of construction. Yes, carbon fiber is lighter, but it is also more fragile.

Different strokes...

[CdoG]

These two have a completely different looks

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I LoVe my stringy
Got to ride a bit toe side the other day....
And riding in general is getting more fun