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Member#: 400 Location: Stourbridge Registered: 13-10-2003 Diary Entries: 3
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10th October 2020
Windsurfing: Levington Wind Direction: W Wind Stength: 10/25 Surf / Sea State: smooth Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: Mainly cloudy with heavy rain late Max Speed: 18.27 (knots - unless stated otherwise) Distance Covered: 16.83 mile (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)
Saturday 10th October - Windsurf **** - River Orwell at Levington Marina
– mainly cloudy with heavy rain late.
Foil – 18.27 knot max, 17.18 knot ave ., 10.73 knot hour, 16.06 knot
mile, 26.83 km ., 11.94 knot alpha.
Exocet RF 91 AST with Slingshot Hover Glide 76 with Tushingham Lightning
7m.
Now that’s 7 sessions in 7 days covering 180 miles+ :) I was going to
give today a miss as it’s been a full-on week and I was knackered, so I
did my back exercises and it started to rain, chilly too so that made my
mind up not to go. Then the rained eased and I checked Landguard weather
station and there was a good 20 knot + breeze from the west, a good
direction for Levington and with the tide turned and coming in I decided to
have a run over to check things out? I dropped Mag off enroute for her
hours walk and arrived at the marina just before 2. I had taken my big
short fin board just in case there was enough wind to fin and I was short
of water to foil but I had plenty of water and the wind looked patchy so
quickly set up my foil, taking a chance in my 7m Lightning again. I
launched out of the marina entrance and was soon up and flying in a very
good breeze but ran out of wind and gybed I then had four two mile runs
down to Felixstowe docks flying all the way. This can be a great spot when
it works and this two-mile reach is fantastic, smooth water and I managed
to keep it flying through most of the lulls getting several nice mile times
for a foil, the only thing keeping my speeds below 20 knots is the poor
sailor on the board, just too scary!!! But what fun flying past the many
yachts, even managed to get my picture taken. There was some big gust but
the 7m handles them very well:) It was getting very black across the river
and with the wind picking up I decided to call it a day, good call as it
absolutely tipped it down while I packed up!
PS – just a cautionary note, windsurfing friend of many years who is
really keen on long distance foiling had a lucky escape today when is
Slingshot fuselage sheared off as he headed up the coast. He was lucky he
still had his mast attached to his board, managing to sail ashore and got
his wife to pick him up. That is the third Slingshot foil I have heard that
has failed which makes me nervous as I like a long-distance adventure too,
I have changed the bolts that broke so fingers crossed I can keep my foil
in one piece but it has been very well used this year so who knows????
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