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26th March 2022
Windsurfing: The Dip-Felixstowe
Wind Direction: ENE
Wind Stength: 10
Surf / Sea State: smooth
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Weather: sunny and warm
Max Speed: 6.24 (knots - unless stated otherwise)
Distance Covered: 6.50 miles (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)

Saturday 26th March - Windsurf * The Dip at Felixstowe – sunny and mild.

Foil – 6.24 knot max, 4.78 knot ave., 0.00 knot hour, 0.00 knot mile, 10.29 km., 4.14 knot alpha.

Exocet RF AST 91 with Slingshot Hover Glide 76 with Tushingham Lightning 8.5m.

After five days in a row out on the bike it was time to have a rest from that and as we had another lovey sunny day with a hint of a breeze but it looked really marginal. I checked the webcam and it looked lovely at The Dip so with the tide low I decided to head down to check it out dropping Mag off at Jacobs Ladder for her walk. With foil racer David Coles also arriving there seemed enough breeze to tempt me to have a try. I rigged 8.5 while David rigged his biggest a 9.5 with this being the first time I had been on the open sea since 30th October last year! I know as soon as I set off from the beach that there was not enough wind for my freeride foil kit but David with his full on race gear was flying everywhere, I definitely should have been out on the bike today as I cant get going in winds of 10 knots or less in fact my heavy Tushingham Ligthning 8.5 which is good at handling winds up to 20 knots struggles to get going in light airs, there was not even a gust to pump up on! I would like to try an 8m foil sail just to see if it would greatly improve my lightwind foiling but at the price of a new sail are out of my league! Still, it was pleasant enough to be out in the warm sunshine!

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