What a day! Waited long time for this day. As I had tuned the FMX 74 with a new idea in the bottom tailshape some month ago, but never really had the change to test it.
This was my first real speedboard session on the Gouwzee. Took it out a couple of times before but it just did't work nice than. Now I found the right fin, and the right tail shape to get this little rocket over chop in open water.
I started to early when the wind was often not enough and there where big dips. So I wasted a lot of energy watertrappeling while waiting for enough wind. Also the Nes is very gusty to get away when zw which is a pain on a 74 liter board 52 cm wide. But that didn't matter. I loved flying on the thing so much that it was worth it and I decided not to switch to the 88 liter. Aslo I wanted to practise so when the conditions are perfect, I have some experience on this board on open water to chase the 74 km/h 2sec.
The board now has a very balanced way of gliding and the nose fly's beautifull over the chop. I might even put back the rear footstrap to the last holes (it is in the middle now). I never had a spin out, but sometimes at high speed there was something.. it sounded like the fin took some air bubbles.. maybe some cavitation. But it was easy to correct it.. For a 25 cm in open water with (somehow not very high but very messy chop) the fin was above my expectation. Also others told me less than 29cm doesn't realy work in chop, well it did :) Thank's to tribal for creating this nice G10 fin.
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