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12th September 2020
Windsurfing: The Manor-Felixstowe Wind Direction: W Wind Stength: 10/18 Surf / Sea State: smooth Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: sunny periods Max Speed: 17.33 (knots - unless stated otherwise) Distance Covered: 17.50 mile (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)
Saturday 12th September - Windsurf *** - The Manor at Felixstowe – sunny
periods.
Foil – 17.33 knot max, 15.70 knot ave ., 5.79 knot hour, 14.41 knot mile,
28.05 km., 7.96 knot alpha.
Exocet RF 91 AST with Slingshot Hover Glide 76 with Tushingham Lightning
6.5m.
After yesterdays epic foil out to Rough Towers today was always going to be
a bit of a let down and sadly the wind didn’t play ball today. Funny
forecast, breezy first thing then dropping off around lunch time, same
tomorrow by the look of things too! With the wind in the west dead offshore
there was never going to be many up for a sail today but I meet up with
fellow adventurer Andy Mexome at The Manor at 10.15 after dropping Mag off
at the end of the prom for her daily exercise, a walk home. Things looked
promising as we set up our foil boards, a lovely sunny day with what looked
like a good breeze just offshore, when Ian Clarke out on a walk to
Landguard said there was 20 knots in the Orwell I rigged 6.5 again although
that much loved sail is on its last legs and am now looking for another one
while Andy went for 6.2. On launching it took us a bit of a slog to reach
the wind line and we then flew to the Orwell but then the wind dropped as I
slowly crossed the shipping channel with no ships in sight. The highlight
of the day was around 20 yachts racing out to sea from Levington Marina,
most with spinnakers flying. Onve clear of the shipping channel I stopped
to take some pics of the boats before slowly sailing through the middle of
them, they turned by a red bouy out to sea and turned right, shame the wind
was light as it would have been fantastic fun racing them but I couldn’t
get flying:( Andy came flying over, he has the knack of pumping his gear up
in next to no wind, something I still struggle with when it is this light,
in fact I needed my 8.5 now. I tried a few runs back and forth and managed
to get flying in patches with some rigorous pumping but it was not much fun
so decided to head back slowly but did see a seal:) I then found some good
gusts in front of Landguard beach and had the best runs of the session in
lovely flat water. It was still a bit hit and miss so I had a slow beat
back to the beach in light shifty winds. Andy had already packed up and
gone home, while Ian had set up but not sailed while David Coles came and
decided against it! Still I got home at a decent time and fingers crossed
tomorrow is better!
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