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As mentioned before, things are looking goos as far as windsurfing goes this weekend<\/a> and I’ve been hoping to have an attempt at my “Life Begins at 40 knots Quest<\/a>“. The first of the winds arrived today but it wasn’t quite as good as hoped.<\/p>\n

I headed down to the estuary just after high tide, it was huge tide so the entire\u00a0estuary\u00a0was full of water and with a 30 knot wind blowing it was choppy as expected. I thought I’d go out for a nice play in the chop on my wave kit as a warm up for the main event. I’d then rig my Speed Kit and have a proper attempt at some speed sailing.<\/p>\n

I went out at first with a 5m sail and my little JP Wave board which was perfect. Well powered and I was having fun sailing around the estuary. It was never going to be fast though with all the chop and after an hour or so I’d hit a top speed of only 22 knots. Shem was out having fun trying to go fast on his kitesurf kit too.<\/p>\n

Dave and Sarah joined us as the wind eased off so I had a few more runs on the wave board and then came in and rigged my biggest speed kit. A 6.3m North Warp and an 80 litre Mistral SL Red Dot. The tide had dropped by now and the speed channel was looking good, but there just wasn’t really\u00a0enough\u00a0wind. I had a few runs but it never felt fast and I was never properly powered up.<\/p>\n

My top speed was actually 32.2 knots in the end which although it is a long way off the target of 40 knots is quite reassuring as that felt really easy and there will certainly be a lot more speed to come once the winds and tides come together. The tide was OK today and the wind was fine first thing but I need to get them both at the same time now.<\/p>\n

Maybe tomorrow?<\/p>\n

\"Speed<\/a>

Speed Session<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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