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Owner: krafty
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Mood: waiting for wind

12th June 2009
Windsurfing: Pevensey Bay
Wind Direction: SW - W - WNW
Wind Stength: 20mph gusty
Surf / Sea State: flat, some chop
Air Temperature: ok
Sea Temperature: ok
Weather: sunny, some cloud, gusty wind
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Distance Covered:

Couldn't get away as early as hoped so just headed down to see Mark and Francis and Ian and a couple of others who had opted for Pevensey Bay.

Would have gone to Posh beach but Paul had texted me to say the road from Pev to Posh was closed and he was going to Spray. Thought about Spray but van was on autopilot for Pevensey ;-)

Got there to see Mark on his 5.8m & 90ltr RRD, but his 105 was looking ominous on the beach.

No brainer for me, had new toys to try and looked vaguely suitable conditions .... so rigged the 5.9m Duke and Hawk 123Ltd (admittedly I put in a 30cm fin to try) and prepared for maiden voyage.

Usual Pevensey in this direction, gusty, not much on inside, wind switching direction, streaky bacon gusts further out, then out the back direction sorts itself out and proper wind. Not the best location choice for today, but ideal to test the board that I picked out to deal with such conditions.

Couple of runs, then in to tinker with outhaul. Few more runs then decided to try the std 38cm fin just to see how it felt. Got worse on the inside so had bit of an 'offshore' session (on my own) as Mark & Francis and the others decided to pack up.

I'd missed the best of it, but still scored enough TOW to feel confident that the Hawk will work nicely in the Pevensey splash & dash, bump & blast role .... and it didn't feel too big to use with the 5.9m, even when I stuck the 38cm fin in it. I think it'll be just right with 6.4m & 7.3m nicely powered up .....

Happy daze :-)

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