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 AA146720911; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 10:55:11 -0700 Return-Path: <robertst@slip.net-DeleteThis> Received: from mole (mole.slip.net [207.171.193.16]) by hplms26.hpl.hp.com (8.8.6/8.8.6 HPLabs Relay) with SMTP id KAA29686 for <wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis>; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 10:55:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [207.171.196.47] [207.171.196.170] by mole with esmtp (Exim 1.62 #4) id 0xDCgr-0000zv-00; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 10:54:34 -0700 X-Sender: robertst@pop.slip.net-DeleteThis Message-Id: <l03020908b04c62355265@[207.171.196.47]> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19970922102712.009118f0@jps.net-DeleteThis> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 10:59:20 -0700 To: wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis From: Tim Roberts <robertst@slip.net-DeleteThis> Subject: Re: Broken Mast
Praise goes out to windsurfers who look out for each other!
Let us all remember the age old adage:
"What goes around comes around."
Tim
>Steve was picked up by a CG Helicopter at 330 degrees from 3rd Ave point at
>approximately 9:00pm (Mast broke in two places). Two windsurfing rescuers,
>Jerome and Jay, had reached Steve. Jerome, just prior to the helicopter
>arrival, was attempting to tow Steve with marginal success. Jay
>momentarily stole the spotlight (literally) with his arrival on the scene,
>as he came planing out of the dark into the searchlights over the scene.
>At this point, Steve was airlifted, Jerome returned, and Jay began to tow
>Steve's board and rig pieces. Minutes later, a CG boat intercepted Jay and
>retrieved Steve's equipment. Jay, man of many lofty titles including "slog
>king", hadn't had enough and wanted to test the low tide water levels just
>south of Coyote Point Marina ;-). Jay was last one in, at roughly 10:00pm.
> The party broke up shortly thereafter.
>
>BTW, I was nicely OP'ed from 5 - 6pm, then nicely powered till 7 pm on my
>5.0 Zeta (165lbs) and 8'8" ASD RKT. What a pleasant surprise!
>
>Don
>
>At 08:14 AM 9/22/97 -0700, you wrote:
>>Did Steve Rapp (?) make it back OK last night?
>>
>>-Ed
>>
>>
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