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7th May 2024
Windsurfing: The Manor-Felixstowe Wind Direction: SW Wind Stength: 15/20 Surf / Sea State: lumpy Air Temperature: 18 Sea Temperature: Weather: mainly sunny Max Speed: 19.61 (knots - unless stated otherwise) Distance Covered: 34.25 mile (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)
Friday 7th June – Windsurf **** The Manor at Felixstowe – mainly
sunny.
Foil – 19.61 knot max , 17.53 knot ave, 13.62 knot hour, 16.15 knot
mile, 54.91 km (year PB)., 11.29 knot alpha.
Starboard Freeride 150 and a Evolution Freeride foil with a Tushingham
Storm 6.5 .
The forecast looked promising for today but the wind was slow arriving and
offshore to start with, so was not sure if I would get out or not, there
was talk of people going to Levington and Bradfield but for me it was
always going to be The Manor especially as its only a couple of miles from
my house! Mag walked around to pick up Maeva while I stayed at home as our
boiler was being serviced. Maeva arrived around 10.30 nneeding asleep and
was a bit grumpy so I took her for a walk down to the pier and back through
the Spa gardens to give Mag a chance to have her breakfast and Maeva had a
nap which bucked her up and we had a nice hour all together on the sofa
playing with the dolls. Then the wind nnow from the SW was picking up to 15
knnots so I decided to go down to Squiz Lane to check the conditions
leaving around one which was not ideal being high water. I was surprised to
get prime parking spot and was pleased there were no sea anglers about:) I
set up my gear on the grass near the van and took a chance with my 6.5
which proved perfect for the two and a half hour session! It would have
definitely been a 5 star session today if it wasn’t for the fact it was
wind with tide which meant for the best part a beat both ways to stay in
the same position but I had some lovely long runs of two and a half miles
out to sea all by myself but I have my vhf radio and I am being watched
from the Coastwatch Martello tower and was in sunshine for the best part of
the session too and had it all to myself:) The sea was quite lumpy but with
my back spacer set at plus 1 I am flying over the lumps much better now:) I
did hit at least a couple of fish but managed to stay onboard for a change
and dropped a couple of gybes but it was a bit lumpy so I am not bothered!
All in all a top session in the sunshine and maybe some more foiling
tomorrow but the wind is offshore so nnot sure of the venue yet?
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