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SimonG Member Member#: 3748 Location: Registered: 02-01-2007 Diary Entries: 45 |
26th May 2007 Kite buggying - boarding: Les Hemmes, France Wind Direction: NE Wind Stength: 15-20mph Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: 14 Sea Temperature: Weather: Overcast but windy Max Speed: 36.8mph (knots - unless stated otherwise) Distance Covered: 40 miles + (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise) After the previous day of light winds it was nice to arrive to see a nice 15mph onshore wind. Hit the beach with the 4.5m Century, got up some good speeds in the low 30s. We decided to head down to Calais, great sand as far as the watertower/lighthouse thing then it got softer, eventually got to the old hoverport at Calais which is about 6 miles west of the car. Ended up on the concrete hoverport landing strip which was a bit scary, saw a dead seal that had been washed up and then headed back. Struggled back as the wind had died but made it eventually, wind then picked up and got some very fast runs on the hard sand with a max of 36.8mph. The Century can cut so far upwind and when you build up speed you can head so far downwind it was great. Stopped for a late lunch, changed down to 3.4m after lunch and headed east, I got as far as a line of wooden posts 3.4 miles from the car, you can go further than this if you weave between the posts so we will do that next time (after the summer restrictions have been lifted). Met Badger and a few others. Had some GPS issues with batteries so missed some miles on the GPS. All in all an excellent day where we covered about 9 miles of beach from end to end. |
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