Are you using the Omen mast or something else like a Cedrus and adapter?
Kind of curious why you’re waiting for a mast but have been riding both the Operator and Agent.
I use the original omen 87 mast as my primary, but i have a 72 cedrus evolution as well which I use for low tide. Both work well, but i believe omen is working on a new lower drag mast to complement the agent
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For anyone curious about the titanium fuse. Here’s a comparison to AFS, which is already a slim fuse.
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Wow! That titanium fuse is mucho thin compared to the carbon one. I have an interest in trying something new and like the idea of keeping it simple. Unfortunately there isn’t any demo gear here on Maui.
I enjoy all foil disciplines and like the idea of a 1or 2 foil set that does it all.
@Greg_F makes it to Maui on occasion I think. If not him maybe another Canadian can bring a setup out. Email Greg off the website. He’s super nice.
Love to see more user reviews, esp. with some relevant comparisons
TY @Hdip . I will look into that.
What mast lengths are you Omen riders running. I see mention of the 87 here. Anyone riding the 80 or have feedback on these sizes?
75 prone or sup. 87 for wind sports.
87 and 75. I prefer the 87, but use the 75 for low tide in shallow spots. I shim according to the omen shim system when switching to the 75
I’ve got the 80cm mast with the 900 Agent. I’ve had between 75 and 85cm masts on other systems. For my use, winging and now just learning to parawing, 80 seems good, but the reduced drag and the foil being closer to the surface with my 75cm mast setup is also nice. I’d probably caution against going bigger than 85 unless you’re going to be going really fast and/or on big swell. I could be wrong, I don’t do those things, but my impression is that those are the applications for a longer mast.
I recently switched from Unifoil to Omen for prone foiling. I’m a little over three years in and bought the Progression foils as soon as they came out. I then switched to Evolutions. My quiver was Progression 140. 170, 200 and Evolution 155 and 175 but I would normally ride the P140, E155, and E175.
Now I’m just riding the Agent 900 and 1100. The 900 if there are waves and the 1100 if it is flat. Super simple. No messing around with different tails or different shims.
At 165 lbs (75 kg) the 900 is almost a single foil quiver.
After a bunch of sessions I would say that the Agent pumps better than the Progression, glides better the Evo (the glide on 900 is pretty ridiculous), has lower stall speed than the Progression and is a lot more pitch stable then both the Progression and Evo. Turning is similar to Evo.
The titanium fuse it pretty awesome too.
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Greg just released a new video on the Agent.
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Thank you for this!! I am riding unifoil evos and have been toying with the idea of moving to omen just because I don’t have time to figure out the perfect combination of fuse length, tail type, tail size, and shim. There must be 100 different combinations I could do. I just want to ride waves.
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What tail, fuse and shim were you using with the evo?
On both the Evo 155 and 175 I ran the short fuse, Progression 14.5 tail and +1 shim for prone.
On the Agent 900 and 1100 I’m on the -0.3 shim.
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Stoked you’re loving the Agent’s TWS! We’ve got an online tool to calculate the required shim:
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