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23rd May 2024 Windsurfing: Levington Wind Direction: WSW Wind Stength: 5/15 Surf / Sea State: smooth Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: cloudy start then sunny periods Max Speed: 16.29 (knots - unless stated otherwise) Distance Covered: 11.61 mile (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise) Thursday 23rd May – Windsurf ** River Orwell at Levington – sunny periods. Foil – 16.29 knot max , 15.48 knot ave, 5.00 knot hour, 13.02 knot mile, 18.68 km., 13.59 knot alpha. Starboard Freeride 150 and a Evolution Freeride foil with a Tushingham Storm 6.5. After missing yesterdays foilable breeze I was keen to get out today before the wind disappears and it looks like we will be having family staying, I was keen to get out today and with the wind offshore Levington was the venue with a good middle of the day high tide:) So after a 9 o clock trip to Felixstowe dump where I got rid of loads of old windsurfing kit including two boards and several sails! I then learned that a few were also heading over to the marina so after breakfast I set off, sadly it was a dull start and arrived by the River Orwell at 10 as the East Anglian Sailing Trust were setting up to take out a group of special needs kids and boy what fun they had, in fact they took another group out I nthe afternoon! This is the first time I had been to Levington since 7th April and it was nice to be back and I hoped there was enough breeze for my 6.5. I set up my foil board as Robert arrived and said there was a bad accident east bound on the Orwell bridge so no ther sailers made it here today! I rigged my 6.5 as did the much lighter Robert and to start with it was fine and I had several OK short runs across, the wind was probably wsw meaning there was not much wind down the river! As I was having trouble going upwind of late and on taking advice from a local foiler racer saying try swopping my rear wing spacer so I swoped my minus 1 to a plus 1 and to be honest it didn’t seem to make a huge difference but will keep it in as the wind today was inconsistent! So after runs in front of the marina I was beating up river towards Pin Mill as the wind really eased back, I slowly made my way back across the corner but the wind nnever returned and with the tide turning I decided to call it a day, shower and pack up as Mag arrived after coming on the bus and walkig the last 2.50 miles with lunch. We enjoyed our picnic in the van watching old barges passing as the wind picked up again! Photo Album here |
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