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3rd September 2024
Windsurfing: The Manor-Felixstowe Wind Direction: S Wind Stength: 5/15 Surf / Sea State: smooth Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: cloudy start then sunny Max Speed: 18.54 (knots - unless stated otherwise) Distance Covered: 9.25 miles (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)
Tuesday 3rd September – Windsurf ** The Manor at Felixstowe – cloudy
start then sunny.
Foil – 18.54 knot max, 12.57 knot ave, 1.15 knot hour, 14.75 knot mile,
15.25 km., 6.19 knot alpha.
Starboard Freeride 150 and a Severne 1000 with a Tushingham Storm 6.5.
After windsurfing 4 days in a row with a run of poor sessions I was looking
forward to having a day off especially as the day started gloomy, we even
had some rain in the night! Then Robert posted that he was hoping to go to
Levington so I checked the forecast and it did look promising with a 15/20
breeze from the south so I decided to keep an eye on it which gave me
plenty of time to do my exercises, The wind continued to be marginal so Mag
and I headed to Lidl to do a big shop and there looked loads of wind so
when the shopping was put away I decided to head down to Squiz Lane at The
Manor and was lucky to get a good parking spot:) The sun was out and I got
a reading of 17 mph on the gauge so things were looking good, my usual set-
up means the 6.5 and I set off with the tide now dropping and had a really
good run out getting over 18 knots so it was looking like it was going to
be a top session, sadly not as I gybed and failed to get flying again as
the wind eased back:( I should have come in and rigged my 7.5 or even the
8.5 and I think I would have had a good session. I stuck with the small
sail for a few floundering runs before finally giving up and headed in.
Swainy was there on his bike so I had a chat with him followed by a quick
snack. The wind looked like it had picked up a little so I headed out again
and pumped up twice and had two really good runs in super smooth water
before it eased back again, if only I had the 8.5 rigged!
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