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Member#: 8511 Location: Registered: 10-08-2009 Diary Entries: 21
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16th August 2011
Windsurfing: The Dip-Felixstowe Wind Direction: sw Wind Stength: 14/20 Surf / Sea State: choppy and flat Air Temperature: 20 Sea Temperature: 16 Weather: Cloudy with only a little sun Max Speed: 24.28 (knots - unless stated otherwise) Distance Covered: 43.69 (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)
Even with the school holidays in full swing we only had two kids to look
after today which meant I could take the longboard out :) With 14 mph sw
forecast and a middle of the day high it looked like a good oppertunity to
cross another island off my list !!! So I was rigged and ready to go with
drink,gps,phone and snacks at The Dip at 9:30 !!! SW is not the best
direction for a trip to Horsey Island as it's a beat all the way and some
thing more onshore would have been better.It was a good breeze to start and
I was wondering if I should have gone with 8.5 but after stopping to move
my harness lines back things went much better !!! I crossed the shipping
channel with no problems and continued past Dovercourt where I saw my first
seal :# As I approached the backwaters the sea flatened but the wind became
lighter and more gusty.I sailed past the creek to Titchmarsh Marina to the
next creek and beat into the large lagoon at the back of Horsey island past
lots of seals on the creek bank and will have to take the canoe out here to
show Mag the seals !!! I only just had enough water to sail as the tide was
still an hour from high.I stopped and had snacks and phoned Mag on a jetty
by the Island causeway at midday,I then continued past Titchmarsh Marina
and out to the main creek past lots of racing dinghies :# I liked it so
mush I sailed around the island again seeing even more seals this time as
well as hundreds of birds including a flock of avocets
It was now time to reach back to Felixstowe but sadly the wind had gone
much lighter :# As I neared the shipping channel by Felixstowe port the
wind increased just a large container ship was leaving !!! I had to do a
couple of reaches to the the ship past before crossing the channel which
was very bumpy !!! My track was jammed with stones so I went ashore on
Landguard beach to free that and noticed that my harness spreader bar had
sheared off one side :# With the track now working and right at the back
had a really good broad reach back and arrived back safely at The Dip after
about five hours sailing !!! So a top top day,shame we didn't see more of
the sun and the wind could have been se but great anyway and a big thankyou
to Mag for holding the fort :)
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