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With practice, you will gain the courage to lower the wand further, increasing the ride height. The boat will really
begin to fly, and you will need to find some completely new sailing skills.
Some of the things you will notice are that the boat remains stable, but all goes quiet save the swish of the foils and
wand as the boat accelerates well beyond the wind speed. This feels like low level gliding and is a surreal experience.
You will also, perhaps for the first time, experience apparent wind sailing. As you speed up, because the wind
direction moves forward, you will quickly need to adjust the sails to prevent the boat simply falling back into the
water as the sail luffs. You will need to respond quickly by bearing away and sheeting in, always steering to keep the
boat moving and prevent the sail luffing while steering to keep the foils under the rig. In stronger breezes you will
soon find yourself going very fast downwind with the sail sheeted in quite tight. Enjoy the rapid increase in speed
and sheer thrill. This is what foiling is all about!!
Once you get used to reaching, gradually head the boat up into the wind, pulling the vang on, sheeting in and leaning
harder. Allowing the boat to heel slightly to windward is one key to successful upwind sailing and requires some skill
to achieve. At all times you should use gentle, steady movements of the tiller, being over aggressive can make it
more difficult to stay foiling.
Take-off
Even experienced dinghy sailors, when new to foiling, tend to sheet on hard to gain speed which heels the boat to
leeward, then hike out hard to keep it flat. This does not result in take-off. The boat just heels over to leeward and
stays in the water... just like any dinghy in displacement mode.
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