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Member#: 149 Location: Registered: 23-02-2003 Diary Entries: 3
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20th October 2021
Windsurfing: Point Clear Wind Direction: WSW Wind Stength: 10/30 Surf / Sea State: smooth, flat, big swell Air Temperature: 18 Sea Temperature: Weather: sunny and warm Max Speed: 29.62 (knots - unless stated otherwise) Distance Covered: 44.75 mile (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)
Wednesday 20th October - Windsurf **** Point Clear – sunny and very
mild.
Fin – 29.62 knot max, 27.34 knot ave ., 12.72 knot hour, 22.55 knot mile
, 72.27 km ., 17.72 knot alpha.
F2 282 Ride with Tushingham Lightning 7m with 36 fin also Tushingham X –
15 6.4 with 30 fin.
With a SW wind supposedly gusting to 40 knots Point Clear was the only real
option today especially with high water at 12.52 making it ideal. We woke
to rain but that soon cleared as Mag and I left Felixstowe around nine
stopping to buy a local paper as I had a pic in, so a good start to the
day:) By the time we reached Point Clear just before ten the sun was out,
there was loads of water and Roger Vickers was already out with 6.5 while
Neil Hurrell was rigging his 6m. Parked out of the way at the end of the
green as it was going to get busy today, I had brought a couple of small
boards due to the forecast, my F2 Ride 77 and the Fanatic Falcon 80 but did
not use either as the wind did not really play ball until much later as we
were losing the water in the lagoon so went with my favourite F2 Ride 282
at 115 lt. with a small 30 cm fin. This is when I made a mistake, I rigged
my little used old Tushingham X – 15 6.4 which has a large area of
stitching has come away on the luff sleeve and the bottom camber keep
popping off the mast which is very annoying, it’s the last time I will be
using that sail! I was second out onto the water as the car park was
filling up fast but sadly the wind was all over the place with WSW not
being a good direction here, making it very up and down and I was rarely
fully powered up:( I stuck with this combination too long before returning
to the van to change to a bigger fin and rig my Tushingham Lightning 7m
also on its last legs, in fact there is more sail repair tape than monofilm
and when I broke a batter again late in the session I fear this sail is now
destined for the skip, I am fast running out of usable sails and am in need
of some new ones but the price of a set is way out of my reach! I was soon
back out in the lagoon but things were still not great with the wind was
still all over the place. Neil and Ian were having much more fun out to sea
where the wind was much more consistent so I decided to join them. I walked
over the shingle bank and was a little nervous about taking the bigger sail
out to sea with the wind expected to build but I was OK and the sea was
good and you could run down the swells:) As the 7m sail was not stupidly
overpowered I decided to carry on up my favourite River Colne, I love it up
there - just me and the waders in the warm sunshine with some interesting
gusts too:) I did a couple of long runs, stopping to take some pics but
with the wind increasing it was time to head back. The sea in front of
Brightlingsea was now really big as the tide had turned and the wind was
really pushing up the waves but I made it back to the shingle bar but was
pretty knackered! The lagoon was working better now as the water level
drops the water flattens and a lot of the sailors have called it a day,
slalom sailors Shaun and Simon were going particularly well even if the
wind was still up and down! I decided to have a few runs but thought I
would struggle with my 7m with winds gusting to 30 knots but managed to
stay out quite awhile and in the end, it was just me and Shaun on his
latest top of the range kit blasting in the sunshine. I upped my average
for the session just missing getting 30 knots by a whisker with some nice
gybing too when the wind was not too mental! With the water dropping it was
time to head back to the van to see what sort of day Mag had had? She had a
good day with a circular walk and relax in our lovely van which does not
get used that much these days. So after a poor start in the lagoon things
improved vastly with a trip up the Colne followed by some better sailing in
the lagoon, cant have been too bad as covered nearly 45 miles, my arm now
seem twice their normal length I might have tomorrow off! Yummy homemade
soup in the van, then pack up before cuppa and cake being one of the last
to leave for the 40 mile trip home stopping to get some diesel now the fuel
problems seemed to have eased but boy has the price gone up!
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