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mas Member  Can't put my finger on it Award 2003  Member#: 272 Location: Bow Street/Borth Registered: 03-07-2003 Diary Entries: 8 Mood: angry....yet content |
9th September 2016 Windsurfing: Felixstowe Dip Wind Direction: SSW Wind Stength: 15-20kts Surf / Sea State: Chop/waves Air Temperature: warm Sea Temperature: warm Weather: sunny Max Speed: 26.78 (knots - unless stated otherwise) Distance Covered: 13 (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise) Made sure I arrived early at low tide around 10.30 with Mike G already out overpowered on 6.2 / 120L. Wind measured 20kts so rigged 6.7 Hellcat / 130L Goya. Pete was doing some photos before sailing. Weather is still great and sunny, but the water at low tide was a bit rough, especially near the river. The runs looked to be crappily short, having to launch from the dip, head to kite zone and gybe before the foaming river mouth where you do not want to fall in. Have sold my Hawk and is now using a Goya 130L Carbon board which is nice and light. Its a really nice board and have def found my intermediate board now. Planed off great but the board felt unbalanced, footstraps were wrong and way over powered so back to beach for fine tuning. The board kept crabbing side ways until I bear off ridiculously broad losing far too much downwind.. Footstraps were in the wrong position and the 42cm race fin that came with the board, wasn't man enough with my weight at times. mike was now over powered and rigged 5.0 / 105L RRD wave bd. A few more sailors turned Chris/Strawbs, Andy Mex and others. Moved the straps out to edge, and back ones back, mast track back 2cm, fit 44 race fin (even though it was rough seas) cos the fin really bites when you need it to without heeling up the board. This was much much better set up which I call Biggy stance and the board tanked upwind as normal. Truthfully the sea was shite, and I was a bit under powered most times, but when it freshened, I was very glad I didn't have a bigger sail. Fell in quite a lot near the river where for some unknown reason there was no wind. I dare not sail thru to the other side incase of rig failure. Waves were OK sometimes near the river to gybe off and stay with coming in, but the run was way too short for me, which is the downside of SW winds at the dip. Pete Strawb Chris Mike Andy M were all sailing well, with some changing down to 6 and 5m. After a couple of hours mainly sailing a little under, the wind really dropped for 20 mins. Thought it came back went out and spoilt a nice day by crawling out to the river falling and waiting 5 mins for the waterstart gust, then crawling back. Lightweights like Strawb and Chris were flying all the time, so called it a day. It wasn't the perfect sail for me as the sea was rough, but weather was good and gybes weren't too bad. Weird cos low tide is normally great. Funnily when the tide came in mid way (wind against tide) the sea was much better and more to my liking but had to go. Lost my glasses which was found luckily by Swainey, after I ripped the house and car apart looking for it! I was very lucky! The other bad luck was my GPS took in water and although Pete tried to recover data the whole window misted. The card was OK showing 13nm and 26.78. Love the smooth Goya. It’s very similar to JP boards, not too long (245). Much prefer Carbon boards in the larger sizes, as light on the ankles, corky and easy to carry. When it takes off, its very quick, so great. Down side is you really have to bear away to get it going. On days when losing ground means many walks of shame, thats not so good. The other down side is it’s a egg shell board and saw 4 chips just on that one sail! |
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