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All the self-rescue talk is great as I've done it so many times I can't
count anymore. My fav is put the boom/sail on the tail and use a slow
breast stroke kick to move towards shore. If a puff comes along,
quickly waterstart and make faster progress towards shore until the puff
is gone. I've even sat on my board to get the last ft-lb out of a
puff....but
On one of the BIG days last Spring in the channel (Third Ave) with 6 - 8
ft swells and 40+ gusts....where you are in a windshadow behind the
swells - I got hammered by a gust as I came over a swell and landed in a
trough on my sail....just the mylar but my shoulder was really hurt
(kept me from sailing for a month and still hurts at times a yr later).
Luckily it was only impossible to sail towards the east bay so i could
sail towards shore at Third until a bump caused it to move the wrong way
and I'd scream and get wet and do it all over again. New meaning to
"screaming reach!"..8) Anyway, sometimes you are too hurt to get in and
a radio is nice to have to tell the coasties where to look for your body
if you didn't have the radio....
Kirk (hope to never have to use my VHF) out
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