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31st August 2024 Windsurfing: The Dip-Felixstowe Wind Direction: E Wind Stength: 20/27 Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: cloudy Max Speed: 24.18 (knots - unless stated otherwise) Distance Covered: 6 miles (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise) Saturday 31st August – Windsurf * The Dip at Felixstowe – cloudy. Fin – 24.18 knot max, 18.81 knot ave, 4.06 knot hour, 14.25 knot mile, 10.16 km., 10.95 knot alpha. F2 282 Ride with Tushingham Storm 5.2m and 36 fin After yesterdays really top foil at The Dip I thought I would try again with an even stronger wind from the east, if I realalised how windy and lumpy it was going to be I would have headed over to the River Stour at Wrabness to catch the early high tide, big wave, small sail fin sailing has nevee been my thing and I am getting a little long in the tooth for it now, not helped by the fact I rarely fin sail these days and stuggle to get in the back footstrap and I don’t use a rear strat at all on my foil board! I let the tide drop and headed down to The Dip at 1.30, several wingers were getting excited about the conditions with some big waves but a bit of a shore break caused by the easterly wind and not helped by the change in the shingle banks upwind! The three fin sailers were going out with 5m so I rigged my 5.2 and the smallest board I had with was my 115lt so I used that. Things went wrong straight away when one of the locking pins on the rear clamp broke on my much loved MK 150-210 carbon boom ( bought in Mar 2018 and used 284 times) I did sort out the clamp but it only had pin so was a little nervous using it in these big seas, I will have to treat myself to a new one, the poor old pension will take another battering! The lightweight sailers were coming in to change down to 4.2 so I thought my 5.2 would be OK. I launched OK but at this point I was overpowered and the sea really big which was really knackering and I ended up upwind near kite beach landing on a shallow shingle bank just offshore! One one run out I landed just knackered, shame reallyt as the wingers were having a great day, that is difinately the sport for these condtions but I am too old now to learn something new! There is no way I would have foiled today, I would have been OK once out but I would have definitely broken something launching or landing in the shore break! With the tide dropping the conditions did improve so I headed out again and the wind had eased a little and the 5.2 was fine, going out wasn’t great as you were sailing into some steep chop but coming in was good especially closer to the beach, trouble was there seemed some movement in the rear of my boom so decided it was safer to call it a day:( Still can’t complain as August as been a fantastic month with 19 sessions but only covered 356 miles so there was some poor outing including the day I lost my foil! Which now has been replaced at a top price:) Photo Album here |
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