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13th February 2022
Windsurfing: Levington Wind Direction: ssw Wind Stength: 15/30 Surf / Sea State: river chop and smooth Air Temperature: 7 Sea Temperature: Weather: cloudy Max Speed: 18.51 (knots - unless stated otherwise) Distance Covered: 16.75 mile (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)
Sunday 13th February - Windsurf *** River Orwell at Levington –
cloudy.
Foil – 18.51 knot max, 17.14 knot ave., 11.11 knot hour, 14.77 knot mile,
26.74 km., 13.52 knot alpha.
Exocet RF AST 91 with Slingshot Hover Glide 76 with Tushingham Storm
5.2m.
The wind just keeps on blowing with another week to come and hopefully
getting milder too! It remains a tad on the chilly side being only 7/8
degrees but you are fine especially when on a big foil board on the river
with my Mystic palm less mittens working really well:) Was not sure about
today but Robert was keen so agreed to meet up again at Levington Marina at
9.30. The tides are getting better all week and being high water, we had
loads of water to launch from the usual spot today. No hanging around,
straight out to set up the foil boards then with a strong onshore breeze,
slightly more south today it was time to pick a sail, Robert went for his
smallest 4m while I rigged my 5.2 and to be fair, I could have used my 4.2
today with some rock-solid gusts to 30 knots, I will pick the right size
sail one day but it certainly keeps you on your toes! I launched and was
beating out to the right and sadly caught the bottom with my foil, thank
goodness I haven’t got an expensive carbon foil, it would certainly be
wasted here with the muddy/rocky bottom! I then headed down river to find
the wind and quickly realised it was pretty windy and lumpy on the corner
so I quickly turned back up river where the water was much flatter but
gustier. With it being SSW you could not sail so far down the river today
so we had fun sailing diagonal runs from the marina towards Pin Mill both
having fun gybing. It is great turning with small sails and I got a few
good ones. It was nice to see some life on the river today, a huge flock of
dunlins flying over, dinghy racing in the distance at Woolverstone with
some yachts actually sailing:) There was an old-style schooner yacht
heading down river so I decided to followed getting really close, it was
great fun until suddenly I was under my sail not looking quite so cool!
With the wind building we decided to call it a day as there could be loads
more windsurfing next week! Quickly packing up, Robert had to help me put
my board on the trailer because of the strong wind, hot shower and home.
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