Gear recommendations (experienced but new to sailing in the Bay Area)

From: Berend Ozceri (berend@cisco.com-DeleteThis)
Date: Sun Jul 30 2000 - 17:18:13 PDT 

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Subject: Gear recommendations (experienced but new to sailing in the Bay Area)
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Hi everyone,

After a five or so year break from windsurfing, I am ready to get back
into the action (the fact that I moved to the Bay Area three years ago
and haven't windsurfed even once must be some sort of sacrilege) and am
looking for some Bay Area specific gear recommendations.

I am (was) an intermediate-to-advanced light-to-medium chop sailer (no
problems beach/water starting, usually can stay dry for a bunch of runs
between dropped jibes). The last board I personally owned was a Fanatic
Ultra Rat (280 cm / 105 l) along with a 5.6 ART sail that I sailed in
pretty high-wind conditions (in Turkey). Since then, I have put on about
fifteen pounds, now weighing me in at about 173 lbs.

I've visited Coyote Pt. and 3rd for the last couple of weekends to see
what the conditions are like (haven't sailed yet) and am wondering if
anyone could give me some suggestions on gear. Coyote Pt. appeared to be
pretty variable, at least in the close-to-shore area where there
appeared to be a lot of lulls, so I was thinking that I wouldn't want
something with less than 105 l of volume. What about sail sizes? I
talked ton one person two weekends ago and he said he was sailing a 5.8
which he said was unusually big for Coyote Pt. (the wind was pretty
weak).

Anyway, please fill me in on anything you think might be of value. I'll
probably be buying some new gear and was checking out the usual
brand-names (Mistral, Fanatic, F2, BIC) and someone pointed out the
local ASD guys. Any suggestions there?

Thanks in advance,

Berend

P.S.: Also, between 3rd and Coyote, which one would you say is a better
place to get reacquainted with the sport?

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