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Member#: 718 Location: in my van Registered: 09-05-2004 Diary Entries: 47
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11th April 2021
Windsurfing: Bradfield Wind Direction: N Wind Stength: 5/15 Surf / Sea State: river chop and smooth Air Temperature: 6 Sea Temperature: 6 Weather: sunny periods Max Speed: 18.07 (knots - unless stated otherwise) Distance Covered: 11.75 mile (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)
Sunday 11th April - Windsurf ** - River Stour at Bradfield – sunny
periods with hale.
Foil – 18.07 knot max, 16.61 knot ave., 6.40 knot hour, 13.84 knot mile,
19.00 km.,11.54 knot alpha.
Exocet RF AST 91 with Slingshot Hover Glide 76 with Tushingham Lighting
7.8.
After foiling three days in a row, I was going to give today a miss
especially as it was going to be another cold north wind day but there were
several messages on WhatsApp saying that they were heading to Bradfield on
the Stour and in the end, I could not resist! Still, I didn’t make up my
mind until this morning being still in bed at 9.20, I still managed to have
breakfast, struggle into my wetsuit, hitch the trailer and drive the 20
miles over the border and still arrived first! I was setting up my foil
board and thinking what sail to rig, the cold onshore wind looked marginal
at best as the others started to arrive, in the end Andy, Robert, Michael,
David, James and Simon turned up to give it a go! With the wind looking to
increase, I didn’t fancy going out with 8.5 so rigged my 7.8 wading out
with Michael and was soon up and flying in a good breeze. I made it into
the middle of Holbrook Bay which was super smooth but sadly it went down
hill from there as you had to wobble about waiting for a gust. It was funny
conditions really 5 knots one minute, 15 the next, I got a few nice runs
but it was cold on the hands not helped when the hail arrived! The wind
then all but disappeared and most headed in to pack up, sods law the wind
did build for awhile and fin sailor Simon and local made the most of it!
Not the best session but it is always nice to be out on the beautiful Stour
and fingers crossed for late next week when hopefully we get a run of North
Easterlies, milder too plus we have just had a phone call from our son in
Surrey and hopefully we can meet up next Thursday somewhere and see
Grandson Arlo too :)
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