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8th October 2024
Windsurfing: The Manor-Felixstowe Wind Direction: SSW Wind Stength: 15/20 Surf / Sea State: smooth and big Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: sunny periods Max Speed: 18.89 (knots - unless stated otherwise) Distance Covered: 33.25 mile (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)
Tuesday 8th October – Windsurf **** The Manor at Felixstowe – Rain
first thing, then sunny periods.
Foil – 18.89 knot max, 17.96 knot ave, 13.24 knot hour, 16.83 knot
mile, 53.74 km., 14.63 knot alpha.
Starboard Freeride 150 and a Evolution Freeride foil with a Tushingham Bolt
5.5.
After missing yesterdays breeze due visiting my poor old Dad in hospital
but on the plus side Mag and I had a lovely walk around Holywell Park first
I was keen to get out on the water today to make the most of a nice breeze
from the SSW, mild too. We had some rain first thing but that was short
lived and the sun soon returned, being a tight arse billy no mates I parked
at Squiz Lane again at 9.45 taking Mag so she could walk home via Lidl:)
The flood gate is now closed so you had to lift your gear over which is no
problem and the board was soon ready with my big foil and with the slight
onshore breeze gusting to around 20 knots I rigged my 5.5 which was pretty
much perfect apart from a short while when the wind eased back. Launching
at 10.30 into lovely sunshine I was quickly up and flying, mainly mellow
sailing as the sea was fairly big to go fast, I had a long 2.50 run out to
the shipping channel to check I could get upwind OK returning towards
Landguard beach before heading off up the coast, 3 gybes later after some
really cool long runs I was turning in the smooth water in front of our
launch beach at The Dip. I then had a really cool beat back, after sailing
1.50 miles out I made it past the pier which is when the wind dropped, a
couple of slow floundering runs before the wind returned and I enjoyed
three long runs out, the the tide getting high and the sea state getting
bigger I decided to call it a day, after all I had sailed 33 miles. I was
packing up when a chatty man spoke to me for an hour which made me late for
our Tuesday visit to see Mary but I got there in the end and still had my
cuppa with chocolate cake, top day:)
No sailing tomorrow as heading over to Ipswich again to do some gardening
at my Dads with Mag and my sister:)
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