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11th September 2015 Windsurfing: Felixstowe Dip Wind Direction: East Wind Stength: F3/4 Surf / Sea State: Lumpy Air Temperature: cool Sea Temperature: cool Weather: sunny Max Speed: 24.43 (knots - unless stated otherwise) Distance Covered: 17.83 (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise) Arrive 1.30 ish to rough seas and not much wind, usually a recipe for disaster for me. Squiz and Maker rigged 8.5 whilst light weight Chris 7.5 and stupidly due to the heavy seas rigged 7.8 North X type no cam sail / 146L Excite ride pro. I wasted 45 mins wallowing so reluctantly rigged 8.6 Gaastra Savage no cam sail. Its a great sail on flat water, but any large sails with no cams becomes unstable in rough seas as the centre of effort moves around. I hate the sail overpowered and in waves. Fortunately the out going tide was great as the seas started to ease but I did plane off great and surprising had a good time in the very rough water further out. Cracked no gybes on the North but every gybe on the Gaastra as fully powered up, but the gybing was a nightmare as they board stalled no matter where I choose but to the rough sea / tide. The waves were great coming in and you could ride through the troughs - brilliant. Both Ian and Maker were going well. Started the speed runs in the same location I cracked 28kts on the same kit, from the kite zone broad parallel to the beach, but after 6 or so attempts gave up as the best speed was 23kts due to the fact that the waves and rough water was too close. It felt fast but the GPS don't lie, too much bouncing and resistance as the huge sail centre of effort moved all over the place. Saw Squiz on the speed strip in the river and thought I had to check it out as he was shifting pretty quick. That was a nightmare decision as I completely missed judge the river entry and went the wrong side of the bar. Not only did the river waves chuck the board all over the place but I grounded out 200 metres from the entry, hitting the shallow full pelt. Fortunately fin and ribs survived. I had a log walk dragging the kit to Squiz on the strip. On arrival, there was no wind heading into the river due to the outgoing tide. I was about to turn back but saw Squiz come tearing down the strip very quick, so kept a tight knuckle hurting beat to his start point. Unbelievable in very little wind - tide assisted my first run grossly underpowered (had to stay on my toes and not load the board) the board skimmed across the dead flat water - frekking brilliant - the trip was worth it!!!. Checked the GPS and the run was 26.43 - 3kts greater but in less wind on flat water. Another 5 or so knots could have clocked 30kts. Tried a few more runs but the wind was dying so no improvement. Great speed strip, if lowish tide and easterlies. Its long - Squiz said 1.2 kilometres and you can crank out the fast gybes or tack to stay upwind. Strange I couldn't plane back to the start. I followed Chris P out of the river to avoid the same entry disaster but nearly crashed as I hit the bottom twice with my 50cm fin. I was very very lucky, and again the river waves were a nightmare I survived as I had no wind to power me through. Nice sail back at low tide in open sea, and plenty of wind / waves for Ian and crew. Revived the old bones in a 2 hours steam and sauna late night session. They day started 1 star but finished 5 stars |
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