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Member#: 261 Location: Registered: 28-06-2003 Diary Entries: 23
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20th April 2014
Windsurfing: The Dip-Felixstowe Wind Direction: ne Wind Stength: 16/22 Surf / Sea State: flatish Air Temperature: 11 Sea Temperature: 9 Weather: couldy and cold :( Max Speed: 25.63 (knots - unless stated otherwise) Distance Covered: 9 (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)
I was hoping for more wind than yesterday even if the forecast said no rain
and it might rain :( I was down at the Dip just after nine and things
looked promising. With 20 mph + on the gauge I went for 7m on the Xantos
with a small fin and headed for the flat water in the River Deben. It was a
bit of a struggle getting there as I was way under powered :( There was
some flat water but no wind !!!! even the kiters were not going that well.
I did bump into Peter & Sally Ling - Peter was out on his kite, I was
talking to Sally when we spotted a Gurnard washed up on the beach - I then
picked it up and put it back in the sea - the highlight of the day :) I
then had a job to get off kite beach with a strong tide running and no wind
in close. By this time a few windsurfers were out so I sailed back to the
dip to join them. I was going to rig 7.8 but the wind had filled in a bit
so I just put a bigger fin and tried again and got my fasted run, it was
good sailing broad but then you had to struggle upwind again, my hands then
got very cold so I decided to call it a day just as friend Mark Smalling
broke his uj and had to swim - great sport this - rool on the summer !!!
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