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Member#: 1764 Location: Registered: 05-03-2006 Diary Entries: 60
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5th April 2019
Windsurfing: Levington Wind Direction: Wind Stength: 10/15 Surf / Sea State: smooth Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: sunny periods Max Speed: 19.10 (knots - unless stated otherwise) Distance Covered: 10 miles (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)
Friday 5th April – windsurf ** Levington – sunny periods but cool.
Starboard 155 with Neil Pryde RS: Flight AL 85 with Tushingham Lightning
7m.
19.10 knot max, 16.40 knot ave ., 2.93 knot hour, 0.00 knot mile, 20 km.,
4.60 knot alpha.
After a cracking 5 Star fin session at Levington we returned again today
but this time Michael and I went out with foils and were joined by Neil
Hurrell who sailed his small Formula board with 8.5. As this is only my
second time out trying to fly so I relied on seasoned foiler Michael
Galbraith to suggest a sail size. With loads less wind today and SE which
was not as good as yesterdays SSE. Being lighter and with a strong incoming
tide it was again difficult to get my board moving fast enough to lift out,
wind against tide would have been much better for me at the learning stage
as it was at times difficult keeping upwind as I was moving very slowly
being way under powered for most of the session, even though Michael was
flying a lot of the time with 6.2 on a 70cm wide 120 freeride board but he
is much lighter than me. At this stage of learning I just can’t see it
working in under 10 knots of wind, in fact at the moment I need a constant
15 knots and defiantly a bigger sail! I had been reading up on the basics
and asking local foilers so I had some things to try today. I moved the
mast back and set the boom higher which helped, at first I tried pumping
the sail with only my front foot in the strap but that didn’t work well,
when the board came up, it came up too quick, luffing up and throwing me
off which can be painful as it can be hard to get your foot out of the
strap! Michael then told me to sail broad and noticed his board pops up
with minimal effort, no vigorous pumping for him. I was getting knackered
pumping hard and it’s hard concentrating, learning something at my age is
exhausting! Then I had a little breakthrough, getting some good gusts and
with both feet in the straps, sailing broad and trying to pump with my back
foot to weight the foil and I managed a few flying runs, not far but enough
to think there was some improvement! With the wind going even lighter it
was time to call it a day, Michael had had a brilliant session not flying
all the time but once up he could keep it flying, Neil on conventional gear
had a bit of an up and down session looking to me to be underpowered a lot
of the time so I didn’t miss much of a fin session. So, what have I
learned today, rig bigger, weight back to fly and the next step is to try
and keep the board flying! Mag then arrived as I was packing up and made
yummy scrambled eggs for dinner. We spotted Swainy on a yacht, he calls it
working :) and tomorrow is showing marginal winds from the NE so it could
be The Dip or Wrabness, will make up my mind in the morning?
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