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6th October 2024
Windsurfing: Levington Wind Direction: S Wind Stength: 15/25 Surf / Sea State: river chop and smooth Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: sunny morning, cloudy afternoon with rain Max Speed: 21.54 (knots - unless stated otherwise) Distance Covered: 26.50 mile (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)
Sunday 6th October – Windsurf ***** River Orwell at Levington – Sunny
morning then clouded over with some rain.
Foil – 21.54 knot max, 19.36 knot ave, 12.71 knot hour, 15.12 knot
mile, 43.09 km., 15.85 knot alpha.
Starboard Freeride 150 and a Evolution Freeride foil with a Tushingham
Storm 5.2.
My 71st Birthday :)
Wow what a great day, Mag woke me at 6.45 to say there was a lovely red sky
so I quickly put my shorts and a jumper on and drove down to Felixstowe
pier still in my slippers. I got there just in time to see the most amazing
sunrise with the sky on fire, I quickly snapped a few pics and headed home
to send them to the weather and post them on Facebook and was lucky enough
to get one on the weather on BBC Breakfast, also I got many hundreds of
likes and Birthday wishes, top start to the day!
There was a good breeze from the South and sunny in the morning, with
family coming in the afternoon I was keen to get the windsurfing out of the
way so after opening Mags cool presents I headed off to Levington arriving
at the marina at 10.30. I thought several sailors were coming later so I
reversed my trailer in so I could get away easily. There was loads of water
and a good breeze so I quickly set up my board with my big foil as I
expected the runs to be fairly short so it would be easier to keep flying
and took a chance with my 5.2 which proved ideal for most of the session:)
I launch at 11 and enjoyed a top couple of hours enjoying the lovely River
Orwell in the sunshine, for the main part just me, geese flying overhead
and a few racing yachts with several wingers and a foiler not arriving
until much later! I had some top runs in front of the marina slowly beating
down the river getting some nice gybes, I did around 75 in all and managed
to stay out of the water:) I did get a little way down the river but the
wind went patchy so returned to the corner where the wind was more constant
and the water was nice and smooth too:) I didn’t push things too hard as
I had a bit of an achy arm after a couple of jabs at the doctors yesterday
and was pleased with my speeds today considering I spent a lot of the two
hour session beating! I then decided to call it a day so headed in, took a
few pics, packed up, showered and headed for home as it clouded over:(
Arriving home before two, had a nice chat with the neighbors before the
Grandson Arlo and his Dad rang to wish me a happy birthday before Dan and
Jay arrived with the lovely Maeva arrived, she was a vision in pink with
her frilly tutu, just lovely:) We had a lovely afternoon/evening with
snacks and a lovely birthday cake homemade by Maggie:) Maeva was once again
the star of the show with kisses all round, what a top day:)
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