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1st October 2021 Windsurfing: Levington Wind Direction: SW Wind Stength: 5/28 Surf / Sea State: river chop Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: squally showers Max Speed: 25.35 (knots - unless stated otherwise) Distance Covered: 12.75 (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise) Friday 1st October - Windsurf ** River Orwell at Levington Marina – Squally rain :(. Fin – 25.35 knot max, 22.69 knot ave ., 8.52 knot hour, 17.59 knot mile, 20.79 km., 13.81 knot alpha. F2 Zantos 295 with 36 fin and Tushingham Lightning 6.5m. Walk ***** Christchurch Park circuit, Ipswich – sunny periods and light showers. Windsurf. Hoped to make the most of the strongest wind and high water so headed to Levington Marina early arriving at 7.45, there was actually a brief glimpse of sunshine with a good onshore SW. As the tide was dropping, I did not want to take a chance foiling as want to avoid hitting the bottom with my new Slingshot fuselage so set up my F2 Xantos 295 with 7m and set off looking for a gust. Sadly, the wind was very patchy not helped by the passing squally rain showers which switched the wind to a different direction! In the heaviest rain the wind really picked up and I had my best run down towards Felixstowe docks, shame I could not see where I was going! I had few good runs before the wind dropped as the rain continued to fall and I hate sailing in the wet! I was not even tempted to switch to my foil as the weather was so bad and the tide was dropping fast. Still at least I got out, now my 6th consecutive day getting a 20-knot average for the last 5 of them! This was not my best idea ever, should have stayed in bed but at least the hot shower was good! And I got home nice and early as the weather started to improve. Walk. Mag and I then went and did our weekly big shop at Lidl, the first time I have been shopping for over a year, just love that lockdown! Then I make a roll and we set off to Ipswich, firstly to feed the squirrels in Christchurch Park and secondly to visit my Dad. We manage to find a parking spot close to the park and soon find the grey squirrels, in fact we have never seen so many searching out the chestnuts and conkers for the winter ahead! A while ago Mag bought a bag of fish food to feed the rudd on our bike ride and a bag of peanuts which we brought today and never has a couple of pounds been better spent! The Park is very pretty set in rolling hills, Ipswich is very lucky to have several really great parks with the Autumn colours making it even better, there was even a little sunshine too:) We stopped in several places on our circuit of the park to feed the squirrels with several taking the peanuts from our hands. Round the circular pond with its fountain, past the wild life pond with its many ducks before finding a nice quiet bench for lunch just as it started to rain! We sheltered under some trees and were set upon by half a dozen squirrels desperate for our peanuts and had great fun feeding them, got some nice pics too. With the rain stopped we returned to the bench to finish our yummy roll while feeding three more squirrels, everywhere you looked they were running about – love them :) After a very enjoyable stroll we headed to visit my Dad but there was no answer so we went to B & M to stock with coal now it is getting colder. Not sure about windsurfing tomorrow as it is supposed to start off light but then heavy rain and strong winds are set to arrive in the afternoon so might give tomorrow a miss??? Photo Album Here I was wondering if you would like to take a minute to vote for my pic in this year’s Felixstowe Photo Competition. My picture is FFF in the seashore section – all votes are greatly appreciated:) Felixstowe photo competition – vote here |
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