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Member#: 8972 Location: Registered: 29-06-2010 Diary Entries: 3
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1st September 2022
Windsurfing: The Dip-Felixstowe Wind Direction: ENE Wind Stength: 12/15 Surf / Sea State: lumpy mess Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: sunny Max Speed: 22.86 (knots - unless stated otherwise) Distance Covered: 16 miles (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)
Thursday 1st September - Windsurf * - The Dip at Felixstowe – sunny.
Fin – 22.86 knot max, 18.72 knot ave., 10.14 knot hour, 18.24 knot mile,
25.94 km., 7.30 knot alpha.
F2 Zantos 295 with 36 fin and Sailworks Retro 7.5m.
After two full-on but fun days over the border at Wrabness in Essex I
thought would stay local today and save the diesel joining Ian at The Dip
here in Felixstowe, sadly it turned out to be a big mistake. We were hoping
it was going to be windy enough to fin and both set up fin boards, me
rigging 7.5 while Ian went for 5.6. We both got into trouble being under
powered not helped by the fact it was wind with tide, that’s a lesson
learned, never fin when the conditions are like this, also the wind was too
light to stay upwind not helped by a big sea too! The Retro I have noticed
when foiling is not the best at going upwind and it did not feel
comfortable for some reason on the fin board today, perhaps I will look for
a Tushingham Thunderbird 3 – 7.5 to go with my 6.5 which I love for both
fin and foiling. The conditions looked OK when I set off but I made the
mistake of sailing too broad on the first run and soon ended up down
towards Jacobs ladder and despite my best efforts could not make any
headway back upwind being way underpowered too! So, in the end came ashore
and had to carry my board back over half a mile, by the time I had
retrieved my sail that’s nearly two miles of walking, so not a great day!
When I got back to The Dip Ian had gone, we meet up later as he had been
driving along the coast looking for me, top man:) He then went to the Stour
something I should have done without wasting time at Felixstowe. Ian also
lost a few groynes too but managed to get back, I hope he had better luck
at Bradfield!
Foiling would have been the better option today but launch conditions were
far from ideal so it was not worth risking breaking something!
More bad news another lightweight Xantos yellow 295 bits the dust as it has
a huge crack across the deck, so can’t risk using that again!
At least I had some good news in the evening when I got a pic on the lovely
Chris Pages weather report on ITV About Anglia:)
Photo Album here
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