Received: from hpoclrf.sj.hp.com by opus.hpl.hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.8/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1) id AA18731; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 07:23:45 -0700 Return-Path: <kirk@hpmsd3.sj.hp.com-DeleteThis> Received: by hpmsd3.sj.hp.com (1.37.109.16/15.5+IOS 3.22) id AA220976187; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 07:23:07 -0700 Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 07:23:07 -0700 From: Kirk Lindstrom <kirk@hpmsd3.sj.hp.com-DeleteThis> Message-Id: <199508041423.AA220976187@hpmsd3.sj.hp.com-DeleteThis> To: 74451.2636@compuserve.com-DeleteThis, Belwind@aol.com-DeleteThis, JILL@regen.rg.iupui.edu-DeleteThis, James.Paugh@Eng.Sun.COM-DeleteThis, SJGUNN@PB1.PacBell.COM-DeleteThis, amulhall@pyramid.com-DeleteThis, cleland@cup.hp.com-DeleteThis, cord@hpoemb.sj.hp.com-DeleteThis, craig@psc.org-DeleteThis, dan_acosta@fmc.com-DeleteThis, fred_schmidt@hpd700.desk.hp.com-DeleteThis, hahn@gigantor.nas.nasa.gov-DeleteThis, hodges@Breakaway.Stanford.EDU-DeleteThis, jeremy_schofield@sid.hp.com-DeleteThis, kenb@cup.hp.com-DeleteThis, kenf@netcom.com-DeleteThis, kirk@hpoclpa.sj.hp.com-DeleteThis, kmills@leland.stanford.edu-DeleteThis, luigi@paris.cs.berkeley.edu-DeleteThis, matt@hpisod9.cup.hp.com-DeleteThis, narayan@dalek.Mango.COM-DeleteThis, pauld@delzio.corp.sgi.com-DeleteThis, poulton@hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis, schuh@ra-iris.arc.nasa.gov-DeleteThis, sjn@cup.hp.com-DeleteThis, walter_menge@hp5400.desk.hp.com-DeleteThis, wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis Subject: Thurs WSing at 3rd Ave + "Right of Way" discussion
or "why bother going to the Gorge and sleeping in my van just to hit
'another slow week'"?
Got to 3rd at 2:45, lot was 3/4 full. Mixed reviews from "std sailors"
where one was overpowered on 5.0 and small board and the other was
underpowered on 5.3 midsized board. Rigged 5.6 Race and CFlex due to
strong flood and was marginal to good for an hour then great 'till 6PM.
Channel was flat with some decent swells on the other side and good
ramps just before the channel. Combo was the right call.
How do we get people to read and follow the "right-of-way" rules for
ingress and egress from the water? People exiting the water have the
right-of-way on the ramp and yet I'd wait in line to go in and some
idiots would, oblivious to us waiting, try to cut in. Then I'd come out
of the water, after waiting my turn only to have someone cut in, get out
of the waves only to have another idiot come down the ramp as I'm
struggling to clear my sail from the waves and say "I'm not going
backwards". I got a bit indignent and said "the hell if I'm going
backwards into the waves?" and made her squat down so I could go over
her and then get dirty looks from the gal waiting to come down. If I
wanted this sort of rudeness, I'd take up surfing....
Another idiot was rigging in the middle of the parking lot and people
would have to yell at him to move his sail so they could get out. Guess
what? He then made someone back into the water on the ramp.
Maybe we need a hole in the fence so people parking in the illegal
firelane can sail into the beach and get in and out easliy? Also, maybe
we should sandbag the other upwind launch and use that for ingress and
the present launch for egress? Other ideas?
Kirk (slogging out to the windline at Coyote looks better now) out
ASD epoxy: 8'8" RKT, 8'11" CS & 9'6" no-nose CS; Mistral CFlex & Malibu
Wt 213#, Ht. 6'0", Usually sail on SF Bay, Cailf.
(kirk_lindstrom@sj.hp.com-DeleteThis)
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