An easy guide to launch your supsail

There are seven stages of Supsailing with the first being as simple as bringing up one wing. This guide provides a step-by-step process to launch your supsail and advance you to the seventh stage which includes tricks such as backwinding.

You do not need to have advanced skills with a SUP in order to SUPSAIL. In fact, you could learn to SUP and SUPSAIL on the same day.

This simple guide shows each stage to SUPSAILING:

Stage0 – Preparing your Supsail

Stage1 – One Wing

Stage2 – Two Wings

Stage 3 – Windsurf Mode

Stage 4 – Wingfoil Mode

Stage 5 – Sailing across the wind

Stage 6 – The Tac

Stage 7 – Tricks

Stage 1

One Wing

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• Bring up just one of the Supsail wings.
• Useful for your first time, or if the wind picks up and you want to reef your sail (reduce the sail’s surface area).

Stage 2

Two Wings

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• Bring up the second wing so the sail is balanced on the central boomast.
• Good for heading downwind.

Stage 3

Windsurf Mode

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• Rotate the sail.
• This entails the end of either the left or right boomast resting on the paddleboard.

Stage 4

Wingfoil

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• Lift the sail off the paddleboard so you are holding it in the air.
• The sail is airborne and completely supported by the supsailor.

Stage 5

Sailing across/sailing upwind

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• The Supsail is raked back – it is parallel to the body whilst balancing on the left or right boomast.
• The supsailor should stand towards the back of the board.

Stage 6

The Tac

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• Performed when the nose of the board is heading into the wind.
• The sail is lifted overhead whilst keeping the grab handle facing the wind. (The grab handle is the central handle at the end of the sail.)
• To exit the move, catch the wind on the other side of the board (stage 4 move).

Stage 7

Tricks

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• Backwind the sail
• Heli TAC
• 420 SUPSAIL rotation
• Helitac420

Ready

Set

Go

The Turbo Launch

Place the grab handle against your stomach, holding the left and right boomasts. Check that the face of the Crux is facing downwards (as you look down on the crux you will be looking at the back face with the retaining loop for the sail). Simultaneously pull both boomasts back towards you thrusting your stomach out. Listen for the clicks of the arms locking into place and glance down to validate the pins are secured. Throw the sail into the air and catch it by the centre boomast.

The B-Drop

Hold the Supsail on one of the end boomasts. Allow the supsail to flutter like a flag with no power in it. Hold the top boomast above the grab handle, pull on the bottom release handle away from you. The top wing will drop via the centre boomast folding down to the bottom boomast. Still holding the top boomast, pull on it’s release hands in a downward direction allowing the Supsail to collapse to fully folded position.