Re: carbon booms

From: J M (fukitsnukin@hotmail.com-DeleteThis.com)
Date: Tue Mar 11 2003 - 14:18:19 PST

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From: "J M" <fukitsnukin@hotmail.com-DeleteThis.com>
To: wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com
Subject: Re: carbon booms
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 14:18:19 -0800
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Unfortunately for me, my HPL head break wasn't so pleasent. I was sailing
Guincho in Portugal... mast and 1/2 high waves. I was in the process of
clearing the outside break. I launched (hooked in) off one wave and sort of
slapped the tail of my board on the next peak... that's all it took. The
boom head went completely, sending me into an inadvertant forward loop. I
was about a 1/2 mile off shore... as I was trying to rig something to get
me back to the beach, I got worked big time and lost my gear all together.
I was left with a loooong swim. My buddy saw my gear wash up right between
2 big rocks - very lucky. No damage, except for all the battens in my 4.0,
which were broken in multiple places. The whole thing was pretty exciting I
guess :)
JM

>From: "Jon Wagner" <jondrums@hotmail.com-DeleteThis.com>
>Reply-To: wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list WIND_TALK <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>
>Subject: Re: carbon booms
>Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 13:12:36 -0800 (PST)
>
> > For a durable carbon boom, check out the new Windsurfing Hawaii Makai.
>I've
> > sailed and broken (190lbs wave sailor) Fiberspars, Chinooks,
>Gulftechs...
>I
> > had good luck with the HPL, but for the head, which I broke (easily
> > replaceable piece though).
>
>Oh, yeah, now that you mention it, I did have to replace the HPL head last
>season, but no big deal really - it was cheap and simple to do, and didn't
>fail catastrophically - in fact I sailed a few sessions on it while is was
>partially broken (such is the addiction -smile-). If my HPL ever breaks,
>it'll be time to try the makai. I hadn't heard about it at all, thanks for
>the rec.
>Jon

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