Sunday 22nd  June  – Windsurf *** The Manor at Felixstowe –  sunny periods and hot.

Foil – 17.44  knot max, 16.33 knot ave., 11.59  knot hour, 15.17 knot mile, 33.36 km., 13.30 knot alpha.

Starboard Freeride 150 and a Evolution Freeride foil with a Tushingham Bolt 5.5.

Bike ** - Felixstowe Prom,

The forecast looked promising for a windsurf foil at The Manor in Felixstowe with the wind starting light and west turning to SW and building around midday. Being a hot sunny Sunday I decided to take my trailer down to Squiz Lane at nine to park as I would probably not get a space later in the day and actually was lucky to get the last space at 9! I took my bike with me despite it having no brakes so I could cycle back and got a few nice pics to send to the TV weather even though its usually a waste of time sending them in at weekends! I then had plenty of time for breakfast and to do my exercises, I started in the backgarden but kept burning my feet on my yoga mat so came indoors to complete them waiting for the tide to drop and the wind to turn SW! The wind was building nicely and swinging so I decided to bike back down and was pleased I had parked earlier as it was very busy with a good breeze blowing and sunny and hot! Foil board was quickly set-up and with the wind gusting to 20 knots I took a chance with my 5.5 which proved to be OK but a tad underpowered at times meaning I stayed mainly in Front of Squiz Lane as going upwind is harder when under, also the wind was supposed to turn offshore at some point so thought it safer not to venture too far although I did several lond runs up to 2 miles offshore! It was an OK 20 miles even though the wind was up and down and swinging off at times with the sea fairly lumpy but the sun was out, the shortie wa son so can’t complain! With the wind turning west and going patchy I decided to call it a day as there is loads of wind forecast for the week and I need to pace myself:) Therer was a couple of wingers and a fin sailor also out enjoying the warm sunshine!

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