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24th April 2025
Windsurfing: The Dip-Felixstowe Wind Direction: NE Wind Stength: 15/20 Surf / Sea State: smooth and big Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: sunny periods Max Speed: 19.67 (knots - unless stated otherwise) Distance Covered: 30.25 mile (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)
Thursday 24th April – Windsurf ***** The Dip at Felixstowe – sunny
periods.
Foil – 19.67 knot max, 18.77 knot ave., 14.45 knot hour, 16.42 knot
mile, 49.07 km., 14.83 knot alpha.
Starboard Freeride 150 and a Evolution Freeride foil with a Naish Nalu
4.7.
Wow my second 5 Star session at The Dip this month, in fact April has been
my best month since last October! A big shout out to Ian C who messaged me
last night saying he was hopefull of an afternoon session today and got it
spot-on! The wind started north which left me the morning free, I had a
quick drive round Felixstowe taking bluebell pics to send to the TV weather
before returning home to do my exercises in the sunny back garden:) The
wind didn’t look promising at one but Ian said he was heading down so I
hitched the trailer and set-off dropping Mag off at The Fludyers for her
daily walk! Ian was already there and it looked good with a solid 20 knots
from the NE so I quickly set up my foil board and rigged 4.7 which proved
absolutely perfect for the whole two hour session! It was fairly quiet with
three wingers out on 4m, two windsurfer foilers plus around 5 kiters out
enjoying the sunshine:) Launching just before 2.30 I was soon up on the
foil and hardly came off it the whole time not falling in once, the small
sail gybes really well especially offshore where the sea was fairly big! I
had a range of runs from long 1.5 mile ones to shorter runs where the
wingers were where the water was a little smoother! It was a good session
for wildlife, winger Michael spooked a Garfish which leap out of the water,
then I spotted a porpoise which is always grat to see, only my third seen
at Felixstowe! I did push it downwind a few times and managed some OK
speeds considering the state of the sea, am loving open sea sailing
especially with small sail – top top session!
No wind now for awhile so looking forward to spending the day with Maeva
tomorrow where we are going for a picnic out looking for bluebells:)
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