Received: from hplms26.hpl.hp.com by opus.hpl.hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.18/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1) id AA156667941; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 11:52:21 -0700 Return-Path: <alans@lan.nsc.com-DeleteThis> Received: from natsemi-bh.nsc.com by hplms26.hpl.hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1S) id AA033027941; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 11:52:21 -0700 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by natsemi-bh.nsc.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) id LAA08593 for <wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis>; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 11:45:47 -0700 Received: from nsc.nsc.com by natsemi-bh.nsc.com via smap (3.2) id xma008302; Thu, 24 Apr 97 11:45:28 -0700 Received: from lan170.nsc.com by nsc.nsc.com (5.65/1.34) with SMTP id AA03921 for wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis; Thu, 24 Apr 97 11:47:56 -0700 Received: from salmon.nsc.com by lan.nsc.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07402; Thu, 24 Apr 97 11:47:52 PDT Received: by salmon.nsc.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA13020; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 11:47:02 -0700 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 11:47:02 -0700 From: alans@lan.nsc.com-DeleteThis (Alan Segervall) Message-Id: <199704241847.LAA13020@salmon.nsc.com-DeleteThis> To: wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis Subject: Errant golf balls / Dented Booms! Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Folks
I don't know if anyone has written about equipment being damaged
by golf balls at 3rd, but I have a story.
My friend Bjorn Alblad was down rigging a couple weeks ago and
a golf ball hit his chinook booms and actually dented the
boom. I could not believe it, it left a quarter sized dent
about 1/4" deep in his booms near the head with a perfect
inprint of a golf ball texture in the grip!
Needless to say his booms are ruined.
Bjorn talked to the folks at the club house about the golf
ball but did not discover his damaged booms till the next day.
I don't know how hard your heads are but I believe if it were
my head it hit instead we would have been talking fractured
skull!! I have kids that we bring along sailing, I am planning
on keeping them out if the rigging area until the get a net up.
I don't know if Randy Anderson is on this reflector or not,
if not please forward to him. This needs to be brought
to their attention.
If any one want's to talk to Bjorn about it directly call him
at home: (408)354-8035 (he's not on email).
BTW the first golf ball that landed near Bob actually hit my
brand new Ezzy 4.2, fortunately no damage.
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Alan Segervall
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>> So I'm rigging up in the gravel at Third around 3pm and a gold ball lands a
>> couple feet away from me. Being in a case of severe rigging frenzy, I just
>> made a quick mental note to go over to the golf clubhouse and complain after
>> sailing. Ten minutes later, when I'm just about ready to go out, another golf
>> balls narrowly misses me and lands in the gravel. This time, I ran up to the
>> fence to determine where it came from exactly: the range or the side course.
>> Turns out it came from some guys who were teeing off on that side course.
>>
>> After sailing, I brought the two errant golf balls over to the clubhouse and
>> had a talk with the people there. The goal was not to go ballistic about
>> almost getting hit twice in the span of ten minutes, but rather to reinforce
>> the following points:
>>
>> 1) There is still a safety problem with golf balls landing in the
>> windsurf/pedestrian area. It seems that the problem is the side course having
>> a low fence only. There should be some real protection here from overdriven
>> balls. When it's blowing 3.5, balls are likely to travel farther than
>> expected. It seems that overdriven balls from the range are now a solved
>> problem, but I'm not sure.
>>
>> 2) It would be better to acknowledge and correct this problem sooner that
>> later. Nobody wins if this problem goes uncorrected for too long and someone
>> ends up getting hurt.
>>
>> Since I went in with a non-agressive attitude, the Mariner's Point people
>> seemed pretty reasonable. They acknowledged that there is a problem with the
>> side course that needs correcting. They also said this issue is being studied.
>> They said that they have been keeping Randy Anderson in the loop on their
>> progress.
>>
>> So, if any balls land near you at 3rd Ave, try to figure out from where they
>> came (range or side course) and go over to Mariner's Point to tell them about
>> it. Bring the ball (or balls in my case) with you. This should help add some
>> urgency to their effort.
>>
>> BobP
>>
>> BTW - Sailed 3.5m2 (165# sailor) at 3rd yesterday. Was the windiest that I
>> have ever sailed there. Yowza!
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Bob Prevett (prevett@engr.sgi.com-DeleteThis) Silicon Graphics Computer Systems
>> (415) 933-5315 M/S 2U-923
>>
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