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17th September 2024
Windsurfing: The Dip-Felixstowe
Wind Direction: NE
Wind Stength: 15/20
Surf / Sea State: smooth and big
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Weather: Mainly cloudy
Max Speed: 19.83 (knots - unless stated otherwise)
Distance Covered: 24 miles (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)

Tuesday 17th September – Windsurf *** The Dip at Felixstowe – sunny start then cloudy.

Foil – 19.83 knot max, 18.63 knot ave, 13.31 knot hour, 15.05 knot mile, 38.92 km., 14.92 knot alpha.

Starboard Freeride 150 and a Evolution Freeride foil with a Tushingham Storm 5.2.

Despite my knees playing up I was keen to make the most of today's good NE breeze as I had missed a couple of good sessions lately which is not a problem as we had great fun celebrating my wife Maggies 64th Birthday. The Dip is the best local venue for the wind in this direction and a few had agreed to meet up around two to give the tide a chance to drop. I would be using my new foil so was hoping the shore brak was OK and indeed it was so I set up my foil board with the big freeride set-up and took a chance with 5.2 which proved ideal for most of the session. There was a good turnout with fin sailors taking the lions share today for a change with 5 out with sails between 5.6 and 6.6, we had only one winger, a couple of wind foilers and 2 kiters further along the beach. This mornings sunshine had sadly gone, we even had a few rain drops but not enough to spoil the sail. There was a smooth section of water close to the beach but as usual it was where the wind was lightest, I could fly right to the beach but did not have enough sail here to fly all the way round in the gybe, further out it was a lot windier but the sea was fairly big but I managed to stay on for most of my gybes and had loads of good runs out, foiling is much better on my dodgy knees, in fact its a lot easier on the whole body, I find fin sailing hard work these days. The new foil went well, I didn’t push things too hard but was pleasantly surprised by this afternoons speeds especially with the sea pretty big in places, conditions improved as the tide dropped but the wind a fraction off making it patchy so it was time to call it a day. We have NE breezes for the rest of the week but am not sure what I am doing yet, I will make up my mind in the morning?


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Toys Used:
Starboard  Freeride Foil 150
Tushingham Storm 5.25
MK CPX carbon 150/210
Starboard Evolution Freeride 95 - 1100 - 330 - 95

 

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