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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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