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31st July 2014
Windsurfing: The Dip-Felixstowe Wind Direction: ssw Wind Stength: 10/13 Surf / Sea State: lumpy Air Temperature: 23 Sea Temperature: 17 Weather: sunny periods Max Speed: 21.07 (knots - unless stated otherwise) Distance Covered: 13.50 (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)
What a top month July has been for windsurfing with 14 sessions breaking 20 kts 9 times and covering approx.270 n/miles !!! . Three
sessions stand out - a top day when I windsurfed around Hayling, a top day in the Solent sailing to the Isle of Wight and a top day at
Felixstowe covering 43 n/miles including a 17 kt hour - not bad for bumpy Felixstowe :)
Back to today, didn't get back from work until gone 4 :( and I think the wind had been blowing well most of the afternoon, by the time
I got to The Dip Mark Smalling had already rigged 6.6 but the wind had dropped so had gone with 7.8 and with wind gusting go 22 mph
rigged my 7.8 and took my 133 to the water. By the time I had my suit on the wind had dropped again :( I decided to try the sail but on
the 147 lt and I was way under powdered and after a couple of runs and with Mark rigging 8.7 I came ashore and rigged 9.4. This is the
first time I have used the big sail on this board in the sea and it worked fine :) There was only about 10 mph on the water and you had
to flounder out, if you tryed to plan you lost too much down wind, I sailed out through the bumpy water by the red and white bouys
before turning and you could plane back to the beach by running down the waves. So it was a 1 star evening sailing out and a 3 star
session on the return to the beach - still a good windsurfing month :)
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