Ken Winner and the Duotone Slick SLS 2023 at the AWSI // Foiling Magazine
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Foiling Magazine's Steve Sjuggerud speaks to Duotone wing designer Ken Winner about the 2023 Duotone Slick SLS wing at the recent AWSI event in Hood River...
Transcript:
Steve Sjuggerud:
Hi, I'm Steve with Foiling Magazine, and I'm here with Ken Winner, the designer of Duotone Wings. But before we get to talk about this new Slick here, I wanted Ken to give a little backstory, because I believe Ken may be the innovator of winging as we know it today. So Ken, can you share a little bit of your background in winging for us?
Ken Winner:
So, about 10 years ago, I got into SUP board paddling, and I thought it might be interesting to try mating a wing with a SUP board. So I designed a couple inflatable wings, and I tried them on a SUP board, right along with Sky Solbach, and we decided it wasn't that much fun.
And then about eight years later, I saw a Flash Austin with a homemade rigid wing on a hydrofoil, and I thought, "That looks really interesting. I'd like to try that with an inflatable." So, I designed an inflatable, and I took it out, and immediately was foiling with it, and I immediately thought it would be fun to do, because I had a sore shoulder. I wanted to paddle on foil and do down-winders on foil, but it was hard on my shoulder to paddle, and the wing took care of that problem.
So, I was immediately able to do down-winders with a hydrofoil and a wing and join in with my neighbor who was doing it all the time, also. Doing the paddle foiling all the time. So, that's where I got started on it, and it took me about six months of pretty much doing it by myself. And Sky would do it once in a while and my neighbor across the street, Alan Cadiz would do it once in a while. But I finally convinced the company that it was an interesting sport to put into production. So, then we started building wings and then some other people decided it was a good idea too.
Steve Sjuggerud:
And here we are, right? All this craziness. So, tell me a little about this new Slick.
Ken Winner:
Well, the Slick is our boom wing and if we flip it over we can show the boom. So we have this boom and the reason I went to boom early on is because I tried handles and I didn't like handles. They were crappy. So, I just went to a boom right away. And turns out some people do like handles and some people like booms. So, we do both now. So, we try to keep a fairly compact wing span and we put a lot of tension in the canopy, which gives it a lot of draft stability. Keeps the center of effort really centered. We put a little bit of reflex into the strut, which helps in a gust to keep the wing well balanced.
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Thanks K.W. for all the hard work you put into the new Slick and the Unit. They are amazing! Cheers, Rob!
What does SLS mean?
Is it stiffer
Stronger Lighter Superior @elliotbawden