Wednesday 20th August  – Windsurf ** The Dip at Felixstowe –  sunny periods.

Foil – 19.21  knot max, 17.63 knot ave., 7.75  knot hour, 14.09 knot mile, 37.34 km., 14.38 knot alpha.

Starboard Freeride WS 150 and a Evolution Freeride foil with a Tushingham Bolt 5.50.

After yesterday good NE session at The Dip, several were getting excited about doing it again today but I was never that optimistic as the forecast was NNE, a tad off! With several meeting up around one I had plenty of time to do my exercises in the garden, sadly the sun did not make an appearance until after midday:( When I left it did not look great with Landguard showing marginal gusty winds from the NNE but when I arrived at the beach three wingers were about to launch with 4m wings and two fin sailers had rigged 6.5 and 7m, rather them than me as the wind was cross off. Everyone wobbled off the beach and did find some wind but it a long way offshore and very up and down, not very inspiring, especially as the sun had disappeared again but I did make the effort, setting up my foil board and taking a chance with my 5.5, to be honest what ever sail I rigged today as the wind was all over the place in both direction and strength, N to NE gusting between 10 and 20 knots so I didn’t feel comfortable at all! I headed out to the wind line and did get going but you were overpowered or floundering and the sea was pretty big out to sea where the fin sailers were with the wingers staying closer in near the shingle bank! People didn’t actually stay out that long and headed in, I had a few more runs and decided to join them when the wind turned north well off but I did catch a few gusts behind the shihgle bank as the water flattened right off but the wind was very patchy. Landing everyone was packing up so I headed to the van for a snack, with most leaving the wind actually returned, NE and around 20 knots so I decided to have another go and increased my top speed from 17 to 19 knots and had the best of the wind for today but it was still very up and down so not great so I decided to call it a day, a session to forget for sure!

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