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30th September 2022
Windsurfing: Levington Wind Direction: SW Wind Stength: 15/25 + Surf / Sea State: smooth Air Temperature: 13 Sea Temperature: Weather: cloudy and breezy Max Speed: 20.16 (knots - unless stated otherwise) Distance Covered: 25.25 mile (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)
Friday 30th September - Windsurf *** - River Orwell at Levington – cloudy
and pretty breezy!
Foil – 20.16 knot max, 18.63 knot ave ., 13.46 knot hour,(spot PB) 16.63
knot mile, 40.47 km ., 16.07 knot alpha.
Starboard Freeride 150 and an Evolution Freeride foil with a Tushingham
Storm 5.2.
Had a bit of a disturbed night with a touch of tooth ache but missed the
emergency dentist appointments but with some pain killers the pain eased.
After doing wordle, we do it each morning I looked out of the window to see
it was very foggy with light winds I decided to get up and quickly drive
down to Felixstowe Ferry and was very pleased I did as it was absolutely
amazing and I managed to get some nice pics:) The fog cleared on the way
home and the sun came out for a while before it clouded over. I then had
breakfast and sorted out my photos and was hoping to go windsurfing before
the big winds and rain arrive late in the afternoon!
With the wind rising I decided to head over to the River Orwell at
Levington to check the conditions, thinking it was the safer bet with winds
set to gust to 40 knots later! I messaged Robert to say I was going and
arrived at the marina around one with loads of water and a good breeze so I
quickly set up my foil, then put my wetsuit on to give the wind time to
settle. In the end I went with 5.2, pretty small by my usual standards and
was pleased I did as there was some massive gusts, at a guess close to 30
knots at times! Robert had arrived now and rigged 5.3, bigger than me which
was probably a mistake and he could have got away with 4m! I had an
interesting couple of hours, to be honest it was a little windy to go too
fast as it was scary but had some nice long runs up towards Pin Mill. I did
hit a few fish including one that had me in over the front, it was
definitely not the bottom as I was in the middle of the river at the time.
The best bit about the two-hour session was the gybing, I had some
crackers, really nice when windy with a small sail!
I managed to pack up, shower and drive home before the rain arrived,
September has been another good month for windsurfing with 12 sessions most
on the foil covering 510 km. Tomorrow is looking very promising for the
first session for October but I have a double covid/flu jab in the morning
so I hope I don’t have any side effects and that my tooth behaves itself!
I also had a pic in the local paper, the Star, the first for several days
and I got one of my morning fog pics on BBC’s Look East, that 10 for the
month a record, well chuffed:)
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