X-OldHeader: From bilbo@bilbo.com-DeleteThis.com Wed Aug 29 11:15:58 2001 Return-Path: <bilbo@bilbo.com-DeleteThis.com> Received: from opus.labs.agilent.com (root@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com [130.29.244.179]) by jr.labs.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 AgilentLabs Workstation) with ESMTP id LAA09851 for <wind_talk_ls@jr.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 11:15:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msgbas2.cos.agilent.com (msgbas2.cos.agilent.com [192.168.148.34]) by opus.labs.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 AgilentLabs Workstation) with ESMTP id LAA27303 for <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 11:15:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail2.fiasj.net (unknown [208.232.76.251]) by msgbas2.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3445CFF0 for <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 12:15:57 -0600 (MDT) Received: from sergei [208.232.152.213] by mail2.fiasj.net (SMTPD32-7.00) id A24D6830212; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 11:19:57 -0700 From: "Sergei Burkov" <bilbo@bilbo.com-DeleteThis.com> To: <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com> Subject: RE: Tues & Safety Issues Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 11:21:30 -0700 Message-ID: <NEBBJNIPPKBHHFBHMFMKIEIGEFAA.bilbo@bilbo.com-DeleteThis.com> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <3B8D126B.D3A1E6AF@ix.netcom.com-DeleteThis.com>
The best way to avoid 2 mile sholg/swim is to sail the cost :-)
Waddell was awsome yesterday! Steady 4.7 wind with smooth head-high waves.
Since the waves were of rather long wavelength (10sec*speed) they were
forming far - far - away from shore.
No shlog.
Sergei
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com
> [mailto:wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com]On Behalf Of Kirk Lindstrom
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 9:21 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list WIND_TALK
> Subject: Re: Tues & Safety Issues
>
>
>
> I sailed Coyote yesterday and Monday on my 5.5 NOA (not much low
> end) and 8'9"
> Enduro. (I'm 228 lbs)
>
> Monday it was good for 2 hrs until the SW shift then there was a
> long schlog,
> multiple dunking swim/schlog in... I made sure I was well upwind
> before coming
> in and I don't go out that far unless I feel I can get far
> upwind...made it back
> to the launch point with longer arms, but otherwise fine. One of
> the nicest,
> smoothest days of the year!
>
> Tuesday it was rocking at 2PM and I again rigged the 5.5/8'9"E and it died
> inside but kept showing puff waves in and out. Many of us took
> those puffs out
> risking smaller gear at about 2:45. It was great wind and
> disorganized chop
> with good swells outside but after an hr I noticed I was "way
> upwind" at the
> channel markers... Since I was not working at pointing... I felt
> it might be a
> wind shift and looked at the hills and saw fog forming over
> Coyote which is
> often a bad sign for it to die (SW shift) so I headed in at 4PM.
> Sailing dead
> into the chop at that time was a 2nd clue of a Westerly wind
> shift. Planned
> most of the way in and had to schlog the last mile or so doing
> the hula as it
> was near dead again with the occasional puffs. It looked crappy
> still when I
> left just before 5PM and the wind seemed to be way outside.
>
> 3rd is often much better than Coyote in W and SW wind shifts as
> the fog on the
> hills is further North making 3rd less shifty.
>
> We need more information to teach "self rescue". Someone
> reported a down sailor
> due to a break of the boom that attaches it to the mast. I
> offered a bunch of
> line to anyone that was rigged and wanted to try to find the
> person but nobody
> had large enough gear rigged who felt they could risk sailing out
> in the dead
> wind. The sail pocket should hold the boom up if you just toss a
> few lashes
> around it. It will slide but stay up... Then you can body drag in
> or water start
> and arm sail in. Even better if you have more line as you can
> tie a long piece
> to the tip of your sail "maybe... not some of my sails..." and
> then tie it to
> the boom with a few lashes around the mast.
>
> Nobody should sail out of Coyote beyond the pole in the swimming
> area with out
> line, a strobe and perhaps a whistle. I keep these in a $6
> camera bag on a belt
> around my waiste and held up by my harness. The belt goes
> through the belt loop
> on the bag and I then use the clips for the shoulder strap to run
> more line
> around the bag many time and thru the belt loop to make a 2nd
> belt loop of sorts
> as a backup. The thing bangs the waves in the channel telling me
> it is still
> there and is really no bother. I also keep a marine radio inside
> my wetsuit
> against my chest (won't be too comfortable for Dolly Parton...).
>
> You can actually make a boom sailable even if it breaks on both
> sides of the
> head... just lash it to either side of the sail, play Kon-Tiki
> and body drag
> in... you just need somethign to get the sail in the air and
> float you towards
> home... Also, you are easy to spot that way and are clearly in
> distress. Put
> the strobe on your arm and let it flash while dragging and all
> will know for
> sure!
>
> Lastly.. Some devotes of Darwinismn are still sailing in shorties
> in the channel
> at Coyote. Whales have enough blubber to survive overnight but
> few others do...
> I'm wearing my 4/3 all the time and often have to jump in to cool
> off but that
> beats the alternative if I have to spend a night in the water.
>
> Kirk out
>
>
> rossb@WellsFargo.COM-DeleteThis.com wrote:
>
> > I headed out of my office to go to 3rd, but the 3:30 page from
> Coyote showed
> > WSW. I don't like WSW on the peninsula, so I changed plans and went to
> > Isabel. From Ken's note, it would seem as though shifting wind
> was not an
> > issue. True?
> >
> > Cindoll
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ken Poulton [mailto:poulton@zonker.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 10:32 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list WIND_TALK
> > Subject: Tues at 3rd
> >
> > ============= Tue 28 Aug 01 - 3rd - 4.7/257 (196#) 3:30-5:30
> >
> > 22 knots at 2:00 got me out of the office, and 24-27 knots from 3:00 to
> > 5:00 made me happy!
> >
> > Water was fairly choppy, but also had big swells, even as it turned to
> > flood.
>
> --
> best regards
> Kirk Lindstrom
> Editor: "Kirk's Investing & Personal Finance" @ Suite101.com
> http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/investing
> and "Kirk's Online Newsletter"
> http://www.suite101.com/files/topics/270/files/WhatLetter2Buy.html
>
>
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