Extremely close. Maybe 5%? The nomad is definitely my choice for parenting unless you go for the smaller Atlas wing
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Thanks- good to know- trying to figure how small I can get away with on the Nomad. I freaking love my Atlas 790 but it’s a bit of work getting going w/ PW- forces me to size up wings, then I’m way too lit trying to get upwind. Great for straight DW, but out and backs and in the surf, think I need something else.
Cheers guys. Thanks. helpful insights.
I’m much bigger than you guys at 6’6” 130kg, so I’ll be looking at the 1100-ish sizes for marginal parawing.
I’m winging on a mikeslab 825 most days (and occasionally the ml1100). I get crazy good glide from the speed and lack of drag (even though its a small foil for my size) but it’s also easy to turn. Speed and carve hard turns to return to the power source to keep gliding, instead of pumping. Every time I’ve tried a wide span foil I dislike the yaw-style turns, and they often feel slow, so I can’t carve-for-glide; so I need to resort to pumping (which IMO is a bummer).
The tradeoff is that it’s hard to pump out of a hole when you mess up.
Hoping after your comments that the big Nomad will be the sweet spot for marginal parawing. I’ll stick to mikeslabs for decent conditions, and maybe try some smaller Atlas.
Maybe I just need to improve my pumping to start liking these wide HA foils, but frankly I kinda don’t want to. To me it looks like the ugly surf Huntington-hop vs someone who knows how to work the face & the pocket for speed.