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8th July 2013
Windsurfing: Felixstowe dip
Wind Direction: NE
Wind Stength: 15/20kts
Surf / Sea State: flat to swell
Air Temperature: warm
Sea Temperature: warm
Weather: sunny and warm
Max Speed: 26.6kts (knots - unless stated otherwise)
Distance Covered: 16nm (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)

Another 10 star afternoon sail at the dip. Wind was NE low tide, so water was flat and perfect on the inside, chopped up near the river mouth and then big swells far out. It was sunny and warm, so the perfect day.
Ian blasted out on 6.0 when I arrived at 4 ish with Chris dithering on 7.5 or 6.2. I made the call and rigged 7.2 Hellcat /120L excite ride pro, whilst Maker who refuse to buy a intermediate sail rigged his 8.5 North Slalom cam sail – madness!
About 6 sailors arrived and several kiters out, although they must have been learner as there was several lost gear being rescued.
I was pi**ed off as I launched the wind dropped badly, so quickly went back for the 146L (quicker than rigging big) and poodled out in hope and boom, 200M out went flat out to clock 25.6 knots on that run with the big board. Went back again and switch to the 120L with a 44cm fin and stayed with that all evening. Everyone was going well seeking the flat water to burn up.
Amazingly Maker stayed out on the 8.5 / JP Slalom 117 combo as the wind increased to F5 and at times I struggled on the 7.2, but he kept gybing in the flat zones. The sea changed constantly as the tide came in with large flat areas and huge swells to gybe off far out. Rode several swells back in then charged for the flat area.
Sussed the North shox now, by relaxing the grip to allow the suspension to really take effect so on the bouncy bits the Shox made all the difference. Hit 26.6kts on the JP 120L although I could have gone faster if I had gone broad enough and use a smaller 38cm fin.
Just enjoyed the sailing so ignore the GPS for fast runs, and focussed on pulling off some nice gybes, both steps and boom boom style (good advice from Italian PWA slalom champion Andreas).
Another epic windsurf day for me - Maker says I rate 5 stars days too easy – Encontre Rodney, if you plane flat out most of the time, perfect sail size, harness lines perfect, boom height perfect, gybes perfect, water state perfect, no breakages and its sunny, what else can make the day better? It ended 7.30 which was a pity.

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