Received: from opus.hpl.hp.com by jr.hpl.hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.24/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1) id AA270032678; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 19:37:59 -0700 Return-Path: <tmgan@earthlink.net-DeleteThis> Received: from hplms26.hpl.hp.com by opus.hpl.hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.24/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1) id AA269622676; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 19:37:56 -0700 Received: from avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net (avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.50]) by hplms26.hpl.hp.com (8.9.1a/HPL-PA Relay) with ESMTP id TAA06480 for <wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis>; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 19:37:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earthlink.net (pool0136.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.192.136]) by avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA18307 for <wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis>; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 19:37:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <37D083B2.DDBD6ECC@earthlink.net-DeleteThis> Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 19:28:02 -0700 From: Thom and Mary Gandesbery <tmgan@earthlink.net-DeleteThis> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) To: wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis Subject: Re: a close call at 3rd Ave last Saturday -- Mark Tischler References: <199909032244.PAA74883@bluedini.engr.sgi.com-DeleteThis> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
These messages can be grouped under the general category: don't sail too
close to big objects. I stay way up wind of the barges at 3rd but I
learned this caution by sailing way too close to the north tower of the
Golden Gate bridge.
Back a few years ago when I started getting bold (cocky?) about sailing
off Crissy I thought: "hmmm, it would be neat to sail close to the bridge
abutment" Wow! Very Stupid! I got stuck in a wind shadow, the current
was swirling around the tower on a flood and I couldn't swim out. Also I
was trying to start in a southerly direction so the current was dragging
me so that i couldn't get my feet on to the board. After what seemed like
an hour (most like 12 minutes really) I got winded pretty fast but
eventually got up by turning the rig around and heading toward Marin.
Summary: Enjoy the wide open water.
-Tom
Martin Frankel wrote:
> Now I'm feeling guilty that I didn't post about an similar experience
> I had. I was in the channel on a 4.2 day during an ebb and made the
> mistake of crossing through the wind shadow of a barge. I made a few
> failed waterstart attempts due to the light & shifty wind in the
> shadow. After a minute or so I heard something behind me. I turned
> around and was shocked to see the side of the barge heaving up out of
> the water and then crashing down just ten or twenty yards away. (I
> hadn't even thought that the ebb tide would suck me toward the barge.)
> In panic, I grabbed my gear and swam as hard as I could, passing just
> a few yards from one end of the barge. If I had been sucked under the
> barge in those conditions, I really don't think I would have lived
> long enough to drown.
>
> Please treat those barges with UTMOST RESPECT.
>
> --
> Martin Frankel |||| mdf@sgi.com-DeleteThis |||| (650)933-6191
>
> "The tragedy of Galois is that he could have contributed so much more
> to mathematics if he'd only spent more time on his marksmanship."
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