Received: from hplms26.hpl.hp.com by jr.hpl.hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.18/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1) id AA014764541; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 11:55:42 -0700 Return-Path: <Zeev_Gur@peoplesoft.com-DeleteThis> Received: from waltz.worldcom.com (waltz.interliant.com) by hplms26.hpl.hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1S) id AA059514541; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 11:55:41 -0700 Received: (from smtp@localhost) by waltz.worldcom.com (8.8.5/Interliant) id NAA06743 for <wind_talk@jr.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis>; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 13:51:57 -0500 (CDT) Received: from internet-504.interliant.com(198.64.193.30) by waltz.worldcom.com via smap (V1.3) id sma006729; Sat Jun 14 13:51:54 1997 Received: by Internet-504.interliant.com(Lotus SMTP MTA v1.1 (385.6 5-6-1997)) id 862564B6.0067FD6F ; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 13:55:50 -0500 X-Lotus-Fromdomain: PEOPLESOFT@PSEXTERNAL @ WORLDCOM@INTERLIANT @ OUTBOUND From: "Zeev Gur"<Zeev_Gur@peoplesoft.com-DeleteThis> To: wind_talk@jr.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis Message-Id: <862564B6.0067FCF7.00@Internet-504.interliant.com-DeleteThis> Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 11:04:00 -0700 Subject: Friday at Tuba was......spectacular Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
The weather guys said it was gonna be
windy, so where was everyone? (hey Justin,
you missed an epic wave session, hope you
got some good sailing done to make up for it)
On my drive to Limantour the road was littered
with branches and leaves from the previous days
winds. Upon cresting the last hill on the way to
the beach, I saw the glorious site of breaking
waves and tons of whitecaps.
Decided to go out on 4.8/8'5" (207#) - which for
me is very risky at Tuba. This combo nowhere
near floats me, so if the wind backs off, I am swimming
or walking. Neither one happened - I made it to the
waves in two fast reaches, totally powered up.
When I got to Tuba, I stopped on the beach to check
out the waves and to give my sail some more
downhaul - it was blowing really hard. The waves
were starting to form really nice, and seemed to
break for ever. This is too good to be true, I thought
as I hit a big wave on the way out and launched skyward.
As the afternoon progressed things only got better.
The wind backed off just enough to have me powered
and to provide the cleanest waist/shoulder high waves
in the world. The tide was just perfect, gotta check
that tide table to bookmark what makes Tuba so good.
I was in that special time and place when the gear you
have, the conditions and your mental attitude are all lined
up perfectly. I thought that I had died and went to bottom
turn heaven. The waves broke for so long that you could
make anywhere from 4-6 awesome carves - too good to
be true. Hitting the lip was also quite perfect since the
wind was so perfect - I even think that I had a couple of
'off the lips', not sure, but it felt like I floated in the air
after smacking the white part of the lip.
After sailing myself silly, I decided that I better
head back before the wind shuts off completely. I planned
half the way back, and slogged the rest.
Man is this place magical; the water is so clean you can see
the bottom when you sail the waves, a ton of wildlife, no people,
no phone wires, no planes, no anything but the sky, ocean,
perfect swells and plenty of wind.
"One man gathers what another man spills"
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