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It’s just not fair. Since buying my speed kit<\/a>, there just hasn’t been any suitable wind to use it.<\/p>\n

This week looked promising with NE’s forecast all week, but as the days have gone by there just hasn’t been enough. It has got close from time to time with the odd gust but never filled in properly.<\/p>\n

Today, Anna had planned to have the car all day so I wouldn’t have been able to get to the estuary with my kit even if the wind did arrive. As we were getting ready for school and work this morning, the wind seemed to be gradually increasing and just before Anna left it had over the course of an hour increased steadily from around 5 knots to 15 knots and was still building.<\/p>\n

I quickly changed the plans and decided to give them a lift into work and school (which means driving in again later to collect them) so that I could have the car. I got back here at around 9 am to find the wind was now at about 20 knots with gusts in the estuary of 25 knots. Just enough so it was time to at last give my new kit a go.<\/p>\n

I got back home and was about to load up the car when within the course of 10 minutes the wind dropped back down to 10 knots. What have I done to deserve that?<\/p>\n

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