Owner:
squiz
Member

Member#: 6644 Location: Registered: 27-05-2007 Diary Entries: 3211
|
7th May 2025
Windsurfing: The Dip-Felixstowe Wind Direction: NE Wind Stength: 15/20 Surf / Sea State: smooth and big Air Temperature: 12 Sea Temperature: Weather: cloudy and chilly Max Speed: 19.77 (knots - unless stated otherwise) Distance Covered: 24.50 mile (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)
Wednesday 7th May – Windsurf **** The Dip at Felixstowe – cloudy and
chilly.
Foil – 19.77 knot max, 18.60 knot ave., 14.00 knot hour, 16.45 knot
mile, 39.71 km., 14.79 knot alpha.
Starboard Freeride 150 and a Evolution Freeride foil with a Tushingham Bolt
5.5.
The run of NE continues, the wind starts light from the north building and
swinging around midday which is when a few, mainly wingers were heading
down to The Dip as the tide dropped to low water at 14.36! So I had time to
do my exercises in the morning, indoors with the fan heater as it is cloudy
and chilly:( I arrived at the beach just after 12 and with a glimpse of sun
there must have been 20 knots so things looked promising but the sun
quickly disappeared and the wind went patchy and it did not look very
inviting with no-one in a huge hurry to set-up! In the end most of the
wingers headed out with 5m and seemed to be going well, the lone windsurfer
rigged 8.6 and with the wind building I took a chance with 5.5? On
launching I was well under and thought I should have rigged 6.5 but I found
the wind further offshore and didn’t look back and had some really good
runs out where the water was rougher but I was pleased to get at least 10
good mile miles in the 15/16 knot range and was pleased with my top speed
just missing 20 knots! I got some OK gybes and to be honest I did.nt get
cold covering 25 miles before calling if a day ending with a 14 knot hour!
Home to see how Mag had got on, she had walked back from Jacobs Ladders
where I dropped her off before she did her lovely hanging baskets:) I might
have one more go tomorrow before we have a day with the Granddaughter, the
lovely Maeva!
Photo Album here
|
Toys Used:
Statsbar:

About MY Statsbar
|