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15th July 2017
Windsurfing: The Fludgers-Felixstowe
Wind Direction: wsw
Wind Stength: 10/15
Surf / Sea State: smooth
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Weather: cloudy
Max Speed: 23.90 (knots - unless stated otherwise)
Distance Covered: 22.39 (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)

23.90 kt. max, 22.28 kt ave., 13.30 kt hr., 20.59 kt mile, 41.50 km., 10.92 kt alpha

Just back from 25 days in our little campervan 'Up North' and I haven't been windsurfing since two good days at Fraisthorpe on June 24/25 so I was keen to get out today. So, after a quick to Felixstowe town centre and Lidl shop I then headed down to The Fludgers to meet up with two Hurrell’s, Neil and Craig. Have a nice chat with Linda as wind WSW or maybe even W with is a fraction cross off here. It is not my favourite venue but the tide was good until late afternoon and I managed to park, always a problem here in the summer but at was cloudy so not a beach day.
We went for it in the end all rigging big, I went with 8.5 on the 310, shortie on I was first on the water just beating Craig sporting his new GPS watch. I was on the water one and a half hours which was OK but never fully powered up. I was making two mile runs, even though the sea was smooth I couldn’t find any speed and gybing the big board was a nightmare:( The wind was up and down and was switching direction then the last run it went really light and I ended up several groynes away from the van but upwind! Back at the van Mag had arrived with a top roll and Mark Smalling had arrived as well as Ian and Paul.
After lunch, I had a couple of runs but the wind was switching more off and dropping so backed up, not a bad couple of hours, nice to be on the water again :)

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