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 AA03747; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 08:38:54 -0700 Return-Path: <James.Paugh@Eng.Sun.COM-DeleteThis> Received: from venus.Sun.COM by hplms26.hpl.hp.com with ESMTP ($Revision: 1.36.108.11 $/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1S) id AA275451132; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 08:38:53 -0700 Received: from Eng.Sun.COM by venus.Sun.COM (Sun.COM) id IAA29294; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 08:28:18 -0700 Received: from jurassic.Eng.Sun.COM (jurassic-248.Eng.Sun.COM) by Eng.Sun.COM (5.x/SMI-5.3) id AA28542; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 08:28:15 -0700 Received: from jalama.Eng.Sun.COM by jurassic.Eng.Sun.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA09517; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 08:28:14 -0700 Received: by jalama.Eng.Sun.COM (SMI-8.6.9/SMI-SVR4) id IAA08659; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 08:28:38 -0700 Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 08:28:38 -0700 From: James.Paugh@Eng.Sun.COM-DeleteThis (Jim Paugh) Message-Id: <199506011528.IAA08659@jalama.Eng.Sun.COM-DeleteThis> To: wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis Subject: Re: Lost Windsurfer in SF Bay? X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII
> > > 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.
>
> I was there too. Rich (the Coast Guard Auxiliary with the black
> Cadillac) arrived with his wife after someone called the CG and
> promptly disappeared (not nice). They stranded sailor had broken his
> universal, but eventually he managed to tie the mast base to the foot
> of the universal using the downhaul line. He made it back on his own,
> and since he fit the description of the lost sailor (pink helmet) the
> CG eventually assumed it was him. They must have been searching for
> someone else, unless they screwed up royally. ---Luigi
This is exactly the scenario that the CG has complained about in talks
with the SFBA. A situation where someone calls in a downed sailor, then
disappears, and the CG really don't know who called, or if the sailor
made it in OK. It sounds like the CG was out searching until 2am
Monday. They can't just assume that the windsurfer made it in on his
own, they are obligated to continue searching. It is critical that when
someone calls in, they (or someone who is apprised of the situation)
stay in touch with the CG, to let them know if the downed sailor makes
it in on his own.
(Sorry for the soap box speech so early in the morning :)
~Jim
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