Re: Skunk Scale - Class 6

From: George Haye (geohaye@hotmail.com-DeleteThis)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2000 - 20:32:50 PST 

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Subject: Re: Skunk Scale - Class 6
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 20:32:50 -0800
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Class 6 Skunk - today (Tuesday) - Coyote - me:

Class 6: Load car, drive to site, rig up, go out, break mast below the boom,
wind dies very soon thereafter, have to swim/self-rescue to get back.

*Safety Packs*
I've seen a windsurfer with a kind of backpack-thing on. Does anyone use one
of these as a safety pack? Or maybe it was just a camelback with water
and/or vodka?

I blew out a safety pack today, too. Has anyone had any luck with a safety
pack lately? Where exactly did you buy it?

As far as fanny packs/safety packs, West Marine doesn't have sh!t, last time
I checked Windsurf Warehouse didn't have sh*t, and ASD didn't have sh`t.
These places all used to have that famous locally-made one a few years back,
but now they don't have sh)t. Except that the Warehouse has this ridiculous
Windsurfing Hawaii fanny pack that fills up with water and can't drain.

-George

----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Prevett <prevett@nvidia.com-DeleteThis>
To: Multiple recipients of list <wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis>
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 12:09 PM
Subject: Skunk Scale

>
> Last weekend, as we were watching the wind die fast on Sunday afternoon at
> 3rd Ave, Pierre and I were discussing the various degrees of windsufing
> skunks. Here is my take on it, ranked from the mildest (Class 1 Skunk) to
> the most severe (Class 5 Skunk):
>
>
> Class 1: Plan on getting a session in, but the wind dies, so you don't
> make the drive to the site.
>
> Class 2: Load car, drive to site, wind dies so you don't go out.
>
> Class 3: Load car, drive to site, rig up, don't go out because wind
> dies.
>
> Class 4: Load car, drive to site, rig up, go out, wind dies, make it
> back to launch fairly quickly/easily.
>
> Class 5: Load car, drive to site, rig up, go out, wind dies very soon
> thereafter, have to swim/self-rescue to get back.
>
>
> PS - No skunk scale needed yesterday. Blew solid 4.5m2 as Davenport in
the
> afternoon; smiles all around.
>
>
>

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