We decided to postpone the trip at the last minute on Sunday morning due to the wind forecast. The metoffice was predicting up to force 8 and whilst its kiteable its not good for a long crossing. The boats would not sail in that sort of wind and the sea state is pretty rough. We now have to wait for another weather window. We hope that its soon as we are running out of light and also the cold will be a factor.
We did a training day today with all 6 of us riding and using all our equipment. We have a few improvements to make to our equipment and we'll be looking into that over the next few days.
We planned to go from St Bees down to Silecroft and back however the wind changed from the forecast SW to SSW when we were on the water and we only managed to get to seascale and back as it was a hard upwind slog with lots of tacking. We covered 45 miles in about 3 or so hours. There were a few glitches on the way but it turned out to be a useful excercise!
Lets hope we get some good wind soon!
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