Received: by zonker.hpl.hp.com (1.37.109.4/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1) id AA28681; Fri, 12 Nov 93 10:59:12 -0800 Date: Fri, 12 Nov 93 10:59:12 -0800 From: Ken Poulton <poulton@zonker.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis> Return-Path: <poulton@zonker.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis> Message-Id: <9311121859.AA28681@zonker.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis> To: 72017.461@compuserve.com-DeleteThis, Barry_Patrick@hp0000.desk.hp.com-DeleteThis, Fred_Sporon-Fiedler@hpctg.desk.hp.com-DeleteThis, Walt_Menge@hp5400.desk.hp.com-DeleteThis, amulhall@pyramid.com-DeleteThis, andrew_pham@umacmail.apldbio.com-DeleteThis, cleland@cup.hp.com-DeleteThis, cord@hpoemb.sj.hp.com-DeleteThis, coussens@hplgcc.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis, ghs@hpisod9.cup.hp.com-DeleteThis, hartman@fanatic.EBay.Sun.COM-DeleteThis, jackg@acrux.xilinx.com-DeleteThis, jlabat@us.oracle.com-DeleteThis, lenb@ssd.intel.com-DeleteThis, matt@cup.hp.com-DeleteThis, mfabrega@raynet.COM-DeleteThis, missimer@hpisod9.cup.hp.com-DeleteThis, pyramid!west!fariborz, schofiel@hpldsl5.sid.hp.com-DeleteThis, schuh@ra-iris13.arc.nasa.gov-DeleteThis, sjn@hpisod9.cup.hp.com-DeleteThis, wind_talk@zonker.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis Subject: Coyote Thurs
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The rest of October [after Oct 1] was a total bust. There were two
somewhat windy days and I was busy both times.
=========== Thu 11 Nov 93
6 weeks without sailing! :-(
I arrived at Coyote at 1:45 to see Kirk heading out (apparently
for the 2nd or 3rd time already that day). He seemed to do well on
his 5.6 once he got past the swim area so I rigged 5.2/8'5 (Tiga 257).
This worked pretty well for the first half hour and then the wind
came up a lot and I was way overpowered. I came in at 3:00 and
rigged my 4.2. By the time I went out again, the wind had backed
off a bit, but it continued to be up and down. 4.2 was about
right - I slogged some, but had about as many stretches where I
was wayyy powered. On some of those, I was just outside the flight
path and the water got flatter than it was inside and the ride
was like being on a rocket sled! The Tiga is really nice
for riding well though the chop on days like this. Lots of fun.
After six weeks off the water, my arms got tired almost immediately. I
had to pay attention to adjusting rig and harness lines just right to
make it easy on them. On a couple of jumps, my back foot came out
of the footstrap at the top of the jump. Ooops...
#miltime time date loc sky/wx temp dewpt rh wind(knots) pres
1200 12:00 pm pst thu nov 11 1993 SFO ptsunny 60 50 69 w 15 29.94
1300 1:00 pm pst thu nov 11 1993 SFO ptsunny 59 50 72 w 20g27 29.93
1400 2:00 pm pst thu nov 11 1993 SFO ptsunny 58 49 72 w 22g27 29.92
1500 3:00 pm pst thu nov 11 1993 SFO mosunny 59 48 67 w 30 29.91
1600 4:00 pm pst thu nov 11 1993 SFO clear 58 45 62 w 26 29.89
1700 5:00 pm pst thu nov 11 1993 SFO clear 57 44 62 w 26 29.88
1800 6:00 pm pst thu nov 11 1993 SFO ptcldy 56 45 66 w 28 29.87
Experiment agreed very well with the NWS data.
Looks like sailing again today!
Ken
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