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2nd February 2022
Windsurfing: Levington Wind Direction: WNW Wind Stength: 10/20 Surf / Sea State: river chop Air Temperature: 9 Sea Temperature: Weather: Mainly cloudy Max Speed: 16.97 (knots - unless stated otherwise) Distance Covered: 24.75 mile (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)
Wednesday 2nd February - Windsurf *** River Orwell at Levington – mainly
cloudy.
Foil – 16.97 knot max, 16.00 knot ave., 9.60 knot hour, 14.00 knot mile,
39.55 km., 11.92 knot alpha.
Exocet RF AST 91 with Slingshot Hover Glide 76 with Tushingham Lightning
8.5m.
After yesterdays full on 40 knot wind session things were set to calm down
today but still remaining fairly mild:) With my laptop running much better
I was able to post yesterdays session before heading over to Levington
marina arriving just before 10.30 with super keen Robert already there!
Loads of water but there did not look a lot of wind but with it WNW it can
be hard to gauge? With foil boards set up we both decided to rig big, I
went for my Lightning 8.5 while Robert went for his 7.5m. This direction is
not the best for here as it can lump up the river and getting down to
Felixstowe docks can be difficult because of the gusty winds! It was a
little patchy to start with but things improved with lots of flying with
some really big gusts coming through but it seemed difficult to go fast
today for some reason? I defiantly not keen on my old Tushingham Lightning
8.5 as it is so heavy to use and gybing is also challenging, just don’t
like using big heavy sails anymore, it can be very tiring especially if you
have to uphaul it a lot! It took me ages to fall in but then I started to
get tired and went in a bit so was getting cold, not helped today by the
lack of sunshine! Ezzy have just combined their two foil sails into the
Cross which goes up to 8m, a lightweight fin/foil sail with no monofilm
sounds perfect but sadly way out of my price range, one day hopefully! So,
after two hours out and getting cold, with the tide also now going out it
was time to beat back. I again got my picture taken by Swainy as he headed
out in a rib! There is more wind coming but it is set to get colder so will
have to wait, and see??? Packed up and showered I had a quick chat with
Jamie and picked up my board bag lost yesterday from the same man who came
out to help me the other day when my mast base broke! So home at a decent
time and was treated to a fantastic sunset here in Felixstowe:)
PS - forgot, a good day for wild life, sptted a deer on the way this
morning and a seal in the marine ewntrance channel pus several birds
including a large flock of geese:)
Photo album here
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