Re: Mon @ 3rd

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Ken:

You left too early! I got there at 330. Many happy faces were packing up
their 4.4s and it was a huge shlog fest out there. So I rigged my new 6.0 with
a floaty 9'2 and was a happy man. The wind came back up along the shore and
was honking out in the channel the entire time. Course a 6.0 makes a
difference but when I left around 515 folks were rigging 5.0s again. Sweet
sailing but mind that sand bar. I thought I knew a way "around it" and going
out a 2nd time I got flung hard! Oouff.

-Tom Gandesbery

Ken Poulton wrote:

> ============= Mon 29 May 00 - 3rd - 4.4/257 (195#) 2:50-4:00
>
> I really meant to go early. I failed, and paid the price.
>
> The wind was really light near the shore, but everyone said it was
> cranking in the channel so I rigged 4.4. This was just enough to get me
> out there and almost too much in the channel! The swell was pretty
> close together - more like chop, but it made lots of good ramps.
>
> After about half an hour, I found my outhaul slipping (yet again) on my
> Booms From Hell. I went inside the marker looking for the nearest
> sandbar to work on fixing it... never a bar when you want one! I
> finally dropped into the water about halfway in and worked on the
> outhaul adjuster until I was convinced it was hopeless and then noticed
> that everyone was slogging in around me. And when most people are
> slogging, I'm swimming on my small board. Actually, I body-dragged and
> walked in the last half mile. Ugh. It turns out that the wind peaked
> (28g33 kt at SFO) when I was rigging...
>
> Parking lot was full, clear out to the golf course's back gate. Ugh again.
> Imagine if SFO kills Coyote...
>
> Those who came early had a crankin' good time in the ebb in the channel.
>
> Ken Poulton
> poulton@labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis
>
> "You've got to take the bitter with the sour." -- Samuel Goldwyn

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