RE: A day in the life of a windsurfer - survival story

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Date: Thu Apr 09 1998 - 14:00:47 PDT


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Annie and Chris McNeil writes:
> At 10:49 AM 4/9/98 -0700, you wrote:
> >
> >How about a cord connecting the foot and the board, similar to what (no
> wind) surfers have? Has anybody ever tried it? Is it possible?
>
> This sounds so dangerous with getting high air and sailing in waves.Annie
>

I am also a regular (no wind surfer) and have wiped on couple of times
in 20+ surf with a leash on. It actually works very well. Given my
limited wave sailing experience, I wish I had a leash. When I wiped
out, the board and sail got swept away much faster than I did. the
result was a long hard swim through the impact zone to discover a
broken mast and torn sail on the beach :-(

Andy

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