{"id":5618,"date":"2010-08-18T06:58:19","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T05:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5618"},"modified":"2010-08-18T06:58:19","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T05:58:19","slug":"exploring-the-high-seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/08\/exploring-the-high-seas\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the High Seas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had another really good windsurf session yesterday. The wind was NW at about 20 knots so I went out on my big board (104 ltr Starboard S-Type) with my 5.6m Gun Nexus sail from the <a title=\"Windsurfing Beach Borth\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forces-of-nature.co.uk\/dbdriven\/beachguide\/beachguide.php\/location\/1\/Borth\">seafront<\/a>. That was perfect, just the right amount of power for some fast blasting but completely in control and comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of the usual sailing back and forth over the same bit of water that I normally do, the fact that I was on a bigger board, with a bigger fin (30cm) and therefore had more upwind ability I decided to head upwind towards <a title=\"Windsurfing on the beach at Aberdovey\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forces-of-nature.co.uk\/dbdriven\/beachguide\/beachguide.php\/location\/155\/Aberdovey\">Aberdovey<\/a>. The upwind stretch was nice and it meant that I had to contend with lots of different sea conditions on my way. 1-2 foot surf near the shore at Ynyslas, rolling swell and chop further out, then short sharp chop over the Dyfi Bar followed by the flat waters of Aberdovey.<\/p>\n<p>Once over towards Aberdovey the wind eased off quite a bit. It was fine on the way there but once I gybed there was little wind to get going again until I was back out into the channel. I therefore had a couple of runs on the Aberdovey side before heading back on some mad downwind runs back over the bar to Ynyslas.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t have a huge amount of time as I had to go to circuits and swimfit so I only stayed on the water for an hour and a half, but covered over 23 nautical miles with an average speed of 15.76 knots. You can see my route below and as you can see I hit a maximum speed of 27.2 knots on the downwind run from Aberdovey, just as I crossed the flat water to the lee of the bar.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5619\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/windsurfing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5619\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5619\" title=\"windsurfing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/windsurfing-400x371.jpg\" alt=\"Windsurf GPS Trace\" width=\"400\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/windsurfing-400x371.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/windsurfing-120x111.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/windsurfing.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Windsurfing Ynyslas to Aberdovey<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had another really good windsurf session yesterday. The wind was NW at about 20 knots so I went out on my big board (104 ltr Starboard S-Type) with my 5.6m Gun Nexus sail from the seafront. 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