Tuesday 16th July – Windsurf ** River Orwell at Levington – sunny periods.
Foil – 18.86 knot max , 16.84 knot ave, 3.10 knot hour, 10.74 knot mile, 19.31 km., 10.97 knot alpha.
Starboard Freeride 150 and a Evolution Freeride foil with a Tushingham Storm 6.5.
The heavy overnight rain had passed through and we had some sunshine with a bit of breeze forecast but turning offshore at somepoint, also with high water just before 8 I thought it best to avoid Felixstowe seafront especially as it would have been wind with tide so headed over to Levington. I arrived at the marina at 8.45 with loads of water to launch and with enough wind to tempt me into rigging my 6.5 sadly I should have been braver and rig 7.5 but I am not keen on using that as its so heavy, perhaps its time to look for a rdm 460 mast ?I put my mast track further forward to see if it would help keep the nose of the board down but was not flying enough to really notice any difference, there was also a lot of weed in the river which is a bit of a pain, I had a few flying runs across the corner then slowly made my way against the tide towards Pin Mill hoping to find more wind, I did manage my best run here but things were very patchy now so decided to call it a day, not the best session but at least I was home nice and early leaving me time to have a cuppa and cake with an old friend:)
PS - was well chuffed to get a pic on this evenings Look East on the BBC:)
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