RE: San Luis Weeds

From: Bruce Hochuli (bhochuli@cisco.com-DeleteThis.com)
Date: Mon Jul 08 2002 - 17:28:58 PDT


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Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 17:28:58 -0700
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From: Bruce Hochuli <bhochuli@cisco.com-DeleteThis.com>
Subject: RE: San Luis Weeds
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No hallucination, unfortunately.

It appears that he had a heart attack while sailing. He was in the forebay
not the main lake and he was a very strong sailor. He had launched from the
Santa Cruz side and was apparently the only sailor on that side at that
time. He was found on the Medeiros side.

At 04:09 PM 7/8/2002 -0700, Brad James wrote:

>Maybe I was hallucinating... but didn't someone post a month or so ago that
>a windsurfer died on the upper reservoir at San Luis- someone who was a
>strong sailor??? If this did indeed happen, I'd be interested in hearing
>any details...
>
>Brad
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bruce Hochuli [mailto:bhochuli@cisco.com-DeleteThis.com]
>Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 3:40 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list WIND_TALK
>Subject: San Luis Weeds
>
>
>
>Hi All,
>
>There was an earlier inquiry about the weeds at San Luis. They are now a
>fact. At lower water levels (<219), you absolutely need a weed fin. At the
>higher levels, you might get away with a short slalom or surf fin but not
>for long. Every regular was sailing a weed fin over the weekend.
>
>On the other hand, the weeds are a joy to hit at speed with a weed fin
>because the water is totally flat in the heavy weeds and you just blast
>through them. You want to fall somewhere else, though.
>
>Bruce



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