Thanks for sharing, your videos are always interesting and informative. Your sail tuning video really helped me with my new Ezzy Wave sails. Would you be willing to comment on harness line length for both efficiency and safety? Since crashing a couple of years ago and getting stuck under my sail I’ve developed a bit of a phobia of getting stuck again. Somehow when I crashed I let go of the boom and my lines were twisted under the sail and I had a very hard time getting out. I was using 22” lines. Many thanks
Thanks for the kind words. I think you want to have your harness lines on the boom so that you can fit your forearm in the loop while holding on to the boom. That will be different for everyone but 22 seems too short. It depends on the length of your arms, but 26 might be the minimum length I’d recommend, and I suggest trying 28. It also depends on the looseness of your harness.
I wear my ion radium just like you without the tension belt but I do tighten the crap out of the straps. This makes the harness loose enough to rotate but tight to leverage the sail power minimizing lag and increasing direct feel with the sail.
Yeah, that is the way a harness should be worn. Unfortunatly to many will struggle as they have to short lines and therefore it will always move up while riding.
So you would recommend to have a looser harness versus a tight harness? I ride with tight harness.but I'm mostly foiling, boom high, lines are usually short, I add maybe 1.5-2cm when it's really cranking. With slightly lower boom1-2cm
Thanks for sharing, your videos are always interesting and informative. Your sail tuning video really helped me with my new Ezzy Wave sails. Would you be willing to comment on harness line length for both efficiency and safety? Since crashing a couple of years ago and getting stuck under my sail I’ve developed a bit of a phobia of getting stuck again. Somehow when I crashed I let go of the boom and my lines were twisted under the sail and I had a very hard time getting out. I was using 22” lines. Many thanks
Thanks for the kind words. I think you want to have your harness lines on the boom so that you can fit your forearm in the loop while holding on to the boom. That will be different for everyone but 22 seems too short. It depends on the length of your arms, but 26 might be the minimum length I’d recommend, and I suggest trying 28. It also depends on the looseness of your harness.
@@GrahamEzzy Thanks for replying and sharing your thoughts. I will try the 28” lines as you suggest. Happy sailing
@@GrahamEzzy do you think this applies only to wave sailing and the kind of sailing we do in the gorge/hood river?
I will try! Thanks a lot for the tip
I wear my ion radium just like you without the tension belt but I do tighten the crap out of the straps. This makes the harness loose enough to rotate but tight to leverage the sail power minimizing lag and increasing direct feel with the sail.
Very interesting thanks!
Yeah, that is the way a harness should be worn. Unfortunatly to many will struggle as they have to short lines and therefore it will always move up while riding.
That’s my case 😅
That's me 🤣
So you would recommend to have a looser harness versus a tight harness? I ride with tight harness.but I'm mostly foiling, boom high, lines are usually short, I add maybe 1.5-2cm when it's really cranking. With slightly lower boom1-2cm
I would recommend looser rather than tighter for wave riding. For foiling I'm not sure.
surprising ... I'll try it