Received: from hplms26.hpl.hp.com by opus.hpl.hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.8/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1) id AA26235; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 09:50:43 -0700 Return-Path: <westes@usc.com-DeleteThis> Received: from netcomsv.netcom.com (uucp5.netcom.com) by hplms26.hpl.hp.com with ESMTP ($Revision: 1.36.108.11 $/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1S) id AA221602239; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 09:50:39 -0700 Received: by netcomsv.netcom.com with UUCP (8.6.9/SMI-4.1) id JAA00490; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 09:44:20 -0700 Received: by usc.com (NX5.67d/NX3.0M) id AA05087; Mon, 24 Apr 95 09:22:33 -0700 From: Will Estes <westes@usc.com-DeleteThis> Message-Id: <9504241622.AA05087@usc.com-DeleteThis> Subject: Re: Wed at Davenport To: wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 09:22:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <9504241558.AA02035@malik.rose.hp.com-DeleteThis> from "steve shugart" at Apr 24, 95 09:00:35 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 971
'steve shugart says:'
> Recently I was in Maui and watching the late afternoon ~ 5:00 pm sailing
> Hookipa in about 18 knots or less. It amazed me how these guys could sail
> in the Logo high waves with so little wind and lots of rocks and vana
> so close. Their ability to make it out through the sets is a combination
> of 1) No Fear! 2) Sponsored Equipment supplier 3) In Shape and 4) Practice,
> Practice, Practice ...................
That's not the same situation. In the case where you still have your
rig, you set up a waterstart between sets and sail in.
In the classic "washing machine" scenario you have lost your rig, and
you are swimming between sets. You get pounded toward shore by the
next breaking wave that hits you, then you get pulled out to sea as
the shorebreak pulls back out. Supposedly it is next to impossible to
swim against this.
-- Thanks, Will Estes Internet: westes@usc.com-DeleteThis U.S. Computer Saratoga, CA 95070
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