Re: Breakdown report at 3rd yesterday

From: Tom Krebs (tom@tippett.com-DeleteThis.com)
Date: Wed May 23 2001 - 13:03:47 PDT

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Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 13:03:47 -0700
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From: Tom Krebs <tom@tippett.com-DeleteThis.com>
Subject: Re: Breakdown report at 3rd yesterday

Moral of the story...........Pony up the money every couple of years
for a spanking new universal !!!

>I had a breakdown yesterday at 3rd, but I couldn't have been too much
>luckier...
>
>I was out enjoying the conditions out in the channel yesterday
>well-powered on a 5.5m2 when my board (ASD 9'0") simply shot out from
>under me and left me holding my rig (and sinking). The pin that
>connects my universal joint to the board sheared at the rubber of the
>universal. This is the second time I have experienced pin shear like
>this but that's not too bad for over 15 years of windsurfing. I've
>never experienced a rubber universal itself failing. My universals are
>probably over 5 years old, so perhaps I had it coming. They are Mistral
>systems that I bought at a Vela summer sail.
>
>I ditched the rig and swam for the board which was being prodded away
>from me by the swell in the channel. Eventually I caught it and brought
>it back to the rig which was still afloat. I would guess you have a few
>minutes before it's unrecoverable. Fortunately, another sailor (Akram?)
>was in the vicinity and stopped to help me. He helped me stabilize my
>board and rig while I ran a line under my mast track adapter and through
>the nylon u-joint safety webbing. It took a few attempts but we finally
>got it as tight as possible, but that still had about 6 inches of play.
>We were lucky that it was ebbing and so we didn't get blown downwind
>while we were doing this. I'd guess it took about 10 minutes or so.
>
>Then I tried waterstarting. This took many attempts and failures but I
>once I got up with the mast positioned properly on the board (up wind of
>the mast track) I was underway and even able to hook in. I stayed out
>of the footstraps since the dynamics of sailing this configuration were
>very weird and took contortions to maintain my course. But still, I was
>able to sail non-stop about 3/4 the way in from beyond the middle of the
>channel. Once I dropped, I just walked the rest of the way since the
>tide was out and my board was getting screwed up.
>
>The mast scratched and caused a depression in my board, but other than
>that, I survived the episode unscathed. I never really thought about
>how I'd connect a mast to the board in an emergency before , but I now
>realize that being able to tie something to the mast track is very
>important.
>
>Thanks to Akram and everyone who stopped to check up on me.
>
>Jon

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