Friday 14th August – Windsurf *** The Dip at Felixstowe – sunny periods and warm.

Foil – 16.97 knot max, 15.45 knot ave, 8.62 knot hour, 14.24 knot mile, 31.37 km., 11.80 knot alpha.

Starboard Freeride 150 and a Evolution Freeride foil with a Sailworks Retro 7.5.

Another lovey day here at Felixstowe, relaxing morning at home doing my exercises in the garden, after lunch Mag and I were going to walk along the seafront to Lidl but David Coles Whatapped to say he was going to check out the conditions at The Dip so I decided to head down too as it is Mags Birthday tomorrow and we have family coming so cant sail at the weekend. David was setting up his race foil gear with 9m and it looked too marginal for me but I rigged 7.5 and take a chance. David was soon out flying disappearing down the coast but he dosnt need much wind! I found it much harder and had several short runs not getting close to flying:( I did pump up once for a run to Jacobs ladder before the wind eased again! Then the one star session rapidly improved as the breeze picked up and I had a fantastic long run down the coast to Landguard and some nice beats back, really lovely in the late afternoon sunshine:)

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