Re: Lost Windsurfer in SF Bay?

From: George Kyriazis (kyriazis@mistral.esd.sgi.com-DeleteThis)
Date: Tue May 30 1995 - 15:27:11 PDT 

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From: kyriazis@mistral.esd.sgi.com-DeleteThis (George Kyriazis)
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Subject: Re: Lost Windsurfer in SF Bay?
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Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 15:27:11 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9505301508.A16023-0100000@netcom4> from "Edward W. Scott" at May 30, 95 03:12:17 pm
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> This weekend I was anchored in the San Francisco Bay about 1nm
> northeast of the San Mateo bridge (in 30kt winds) on a sailboat.
> At about 2am on Monday, I was approched by a Coast Guard cutter
> wanting to know if we'd see a lost windsurfer. They had at least
> one search boat and one helicopter out looking. Being off the
> lee shore in fairly shallow water, we were getting the sh*t
> kicked out of us with waves breaking over the bow. I can't
> imagine what it would be like to be out there floating around.
> When the wind died down alittle, we pulled up the hook and left the
> area with our eyes peeled, but didn't see any signs of him.
>

I was at 3rd on Sunday, and as I was packing up around 7pm. The coast
guard arrived around that time and there were also some people with
binoculars looking downwind towards the bridge.

At least the water was not that cold. Let's hope he made it..

  --george

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