Received: from hplms26.hpl.hp.com by opus.hpl.hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.8/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1) id AA23827; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 09:11:27 -0700 Return-Path: <sdubois@advent.com-DeleteThis> Received: from mozart.advent.com by hplms26.hpl.hp.com with ESMTP ($Revision: 1.36.108.11 $/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1S) id AA283342735; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 09:12:15 -0700 Received: from smtp_out.advent.com (smtp_out [204.243.141.5]) by mozart.advent.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA21229 for <wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis>; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 08:49:34 -0700 Received: from cc:Mail by smtp_out.advent.com id AA807551387; Fri, 04 Aug 95 08:47:57 PST Date: Fri, 04 Aug 95 08:47:57 PST From: sdubois@advent.com-DeleteThis Message-Id: <9507048075.AA807551387@smtp_out.advent.com-DeleteThis> To: wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis Subject: Re: Thurs WSing at 3rd Ave + "Right of Way" discussion
Good points Kirk. I think I might have tried to cut you in. But I was
truly thinking that you were just standing there wondering whether
there was just too much wind for you or not...:-) anyway, I apologize.
On the subject--and at the risk of being perceived as inconsiderate--
as much as I think rights-of-way rules should be respected by
everyone, I get real impatient when I have to stand 5 minutes behind
someone trying to make it down the ramp without booties... The bags have
made things a bit better, but if 3 guys are coming up without booties and
they are being pounded by waves at high tide, you end up having to hold
your rig for 10 minutes making sure you don't kill any bicyclist on the
path... With booties, I can clear the ramp in 15 seconds...
Unlike Coyote, third av. as a narrow, one-way, rocky access ramp that is
getting real crowded these days, so do yourself and others a favor--wear
booties (I know some of you will say that your will "loose" that close
feeling you have with the board. Remember that's also what many say about
condoms...)...
Stephane "feeling-like-a-jerk-today" DuBois
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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