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Member#: 945 Location: Shrewsbury Registered: 31-08-2004 Diary Entries: 40
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1st August 2020
Windsurfing: Levington Wind Direction: W Wind Stength: 8/18 Surf / Sea State: smooth Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: sunny Max Speed: 14.96 (knots - unless stated otherwise) Distance Covered: 17.35 mile (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)
Saturday 1st August- Windsurf *** - River Orwell at Levington Marina –
sunny.
Exocet RF 91 AST with Slingshot Hover Glide 76 with Tushingham Lightning
7m.
Foil – 14.96 knot max, 14.02 knot ave ., 3.76 knot hour, 9.14 knot mile,
27.68 km., 9.53 knot alpha.
With yesterdays wash out when the weatherman forecast us windsurfers wall
to wall sunshine, 30-degree temperatures and a good SE breeze which again
failed to arrive at Felixstowe and despite loads of us going to The Dip for
hours waiting we were disappointed, still great weather for a social get
together. We were lucky that we have limited parking for windsurfers at The
Dip as Felixstowe was pretty much grad locked as most of Suffolk headed to
Felixstowe and enjoyed the relative peace and quiet! We our hair dresser
coming from Ipswich at 10 for our first haircut since December 10th I was
going to give the early breeze a miss. As it was a hot night Mag opened our
bedroom window wide and I was woken at 7 to the curtains being blown out. I
checked Landguard and saw that the westerly was strong enough for a foil, I
didn’t have time to drive over to Bradfield so went to my favourite local
venue Levington Marina. Again, Mag came some of the way so she could get
her daily walk and I arrived at the Marina at 8 and was expecting James
Pollard to be there but I was the first to arrive! We the wind blowing
straight down the River Orwell to 15 mph I set up the foil and took a
chance on my 7m as I didn’t have Andy M to advise on sail choice:) There
was plenty of water as I set off across the river and was soon up and
flying but the wind was pretty patchy and I could have down with a bigger
sail. With not much wind down towards Felixstowe docks I headed up river
deciding on tacking today and gybed every turn, still not flying turns but
good fun trying! You had to keep an eye open as there were loads of yachts
heading out to sea as I beat towards Pin Mill. I had some OK runs
interspersed with slogging but that’s river sailing for you! Still the
sun was out and I had plenty of water, with the wind going really patchy I
turned back towards the Marina and spotted Jamie out flying well. I learned
he was on his 6.9, being a lightweight I knew I was really under sailed, in
fact in the end he went in and changed to 7.8. I had been out two hours and
it was time to call it a day as my haircut beckoned! So, after a catch up
with Jamie, packing up and having another top shower at the marina I got
home at midday in perfect time for a trim with the lovely Susan. Looks like
the same again for tomorrow, I am now thinking that paying for Bradfield on
the Stour might have been a waste of money because although the sailing is
better on the Stour I don’t always want a round trip of 50 miles
especially in the winter when you only want a quick hour, still I can make
that decision next year?
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