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25th August 2013
Windsurfing: The Dip-Felixstowe
Wind Direction: ene
Wind Stength: 14/18
Surf / Sea State: choppy then smoother
Air Temperature: 24
Sea Temperature: 16
Weather: sunny
Max Speed: 24.26 (knots - unless stated otherwise)
Distance Covered: 38.85 (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)

Today looked like the only chance to get out windsurfing with 16 mph forecast.Mag and I went to The Dip for breakfast and Neil Hurrell arrived and the wind was gusting over 20 kts :) so Neil rigged 7m but my 7.5 is sadly dead :( and I couldn't rig my 7m as I broke my 4.6m mast in Scotland so the day can only get better !!! So I took a chance and rigged 8.5 the same as Steve Carter. We had missed the best of the tide and it was coming in so we had wind with tide and as the water came in it chopped up. I did manage to get going just and even got out 2 miles to check out the large boat anchored offshore - a bouy laying vessel - but the wind went light and I lost lost downwind :( After a break on the beach I struggled back to the van for lunch.Mark D and Ian C had arrived and rigged 7m so I decided to give it another go in winds that had picked up a notch but it seemed hollow and gutless but I was planning :) I beat up to Bawdsey Beach which was slow going as 8,5 is not best suited to this board. I turned in the river Deben near the sailing club and had two mega braod reaches back - reaaly good :) On arriving back at The Dip Mag arrived on her bike and we had tea in the van :) Neil was still going well on 7m so I went out for another non-stop hour - the best of the day as the tide dropped the sea flattened off even if still lumpy out by the red bouy. So a one star floundering day turned out all right in the end - shame a few more didn't come down and enjoy the sunshine !!!

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