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 AA24564; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 09:26:06 -0700 Return-Path: <delsie@ella.mills.edu-DeleteThis> Received: from nak.berkeley.edu by hplms26.hpl.hp.com with ESMTP ($Revision: 1.36.108.11 $/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1S) id AA285983614; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 09:26:55 -0700 Received: from ella.mills.edu (ella.mills.edu [144.91.4.6]) by nak.berkeley.edu (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id JAA20526 for <@mailhost.berkeley.edu:wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis>; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 09:20:11 -0700 Received: from ws06 by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/920502.SGI) for <wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis> id JAA15412; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 09:22:04 -0700 Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 09:22:04 -0700 Message-Id: <199508041622.JAA15412@ella.mills.edu-DeleteThis> X-Sender: delsie@ella.mills.edu-DeleteThis X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis From: delsie@ella.mills.edu-DeleteThis (Delsie Austinson) Subject: Re: Thurs WSing at 3rd Ave + "Right of Way" discussion
I don't sail 3rd, never have, but I'm with you 100%, Stephane.
>
> 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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