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Member#: 252 Location: London Registered: 24-06-2003 Diary Entries: 7
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5th June 2017
Windsurfing: Hamworthy, Poole Harbour Wind Direction: sw Wind Stength: 20/30 Surf / Sea State: river chop Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: cloudy, rain and very windy. Max Speed: 30.57 (knots - unless stated otherwise) Distance Covered: 14.83 (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)
Monday 5th June – travel then Windsurf **** Hamworthy – cloudy, rain
and very windy.
F2 Ride 282, Tushingham Lightning 6.50m, 38 cm fin. Wind S, 20/30 mph
30.57 kt. max., 29.12 kt. ave., 18.93 kt. mile, 27.50 km, 17.02kt.
alpha.
After an absolute crap day on Sunday I woke chilled but sadly the lovely
sunshine had been replaced by menacing clouds and strong winds. The crowds
of walkers and bikers from yesterday enjoying the beauty of the South Downs
way at Bignor had been replaced by a few hardly souls!
We were away early to head to the coast, with strong winds forecast and my
smallest sail with me a 6.5 I needed a sheltered option, I think the tide
and wind direction was not great for Langstone and Portland too far we
opted for Hamworthy in Poole Harbour as recommended by Ian Richards who
said there is free parking and it can be sailed the whole tide:)
This was still a 90-mile trip but luckily on dual carriage way/motorway a
lot of the way, we even managed to find a Lidl en-route to stock up with
goodies:) I had my fingers crossed there was no height restriction at the
carpark which there wasn’t but there was a new parking meter but it was
only £2:) The carpark was nearly empty which is hardly surprising as the
strong onshore wind was bringing squally showers but there were a few mad
dog walkers and a solitary windsurfer rigging. After a quick word with him
about sail choice, he was on 6m, I took my only board I have with me to the
water’s edge on a nice little beach with a row of beach huts with nice
views across the harbour. The tide was high and the other windsurfer seemed
under with 6m so I stupidly rigged my X-15 7m 4 cammed sail, a big mistake!
I only had time to eat half my chicken roll before heading out, the launch
is easy and you could sail parallel to the beach. There were some vicious
gusts and it was very choppy but I did manage to beat over to Brownsea
Island but then decided to head back and rig the 6.5 as the X-15 was being
a pain with the cams popping off and the boom even came undone at the end
as it was not extended enough! I had made 27kts with the big sail but
improved this to just over 30 kts, doing three runs over 30 in the end, not
bad in such big chop but I managed to find some flatter swells and hoped it
was deep enough, luckily, I didn’t hit the bottom!
I did enough runs for a nice average and then called it a day, I made the
mistake of getting changed out of my wetsuit to have a cuppa and cream tea
then got soaked packing up and tying gear on the roof rack and my mast was
stuck so put that on in one piece to sort out later!
The Poole Harbour area is not well known for ‘wild camping’ Mag checked
on line and someone said they had stopped at the RSPB carpark at Arne,
around the harbour past Wareham. We got there and discovered you had to pay
and the gates where shut at 6 so found a nice spot just down the road in a
little wood after seeing some deer on the way. The only trouble is it’s
raining and blowing a gale and small twigs keep falling on the van, fingers
crossed we don’t get a whole tree down!!!
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