the bay area goes to the Gorge it seems

From: Jeff Hodges (hodges@Breakaway.Stanford.EDU-DeleteThis)
Date: Wed Aug 16 1995 - 09:45:01 PDT


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Subject: the bay area goes to the Gorge it seems
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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 95 09:45:01 -0700
From: Jeff Hodges <hodges@Breakaway.Stanford.EDU-DeleteThis>
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I spent 23-Jul thru 12-Aug in Hood River & environs. Had a blast. And also ran
into several of youze folks up there: Jim Paugh, Pierce, Ciecly (sp?), Sherrie,
Greg-from-Helm, Bob Colopy. Everyone seemed to be having a good time. Jim
Grinstead is up there now and had a great day at Rowena yesterday (it was
blowin' 4.0-4.7). I managed to sail every sail size I have from 3.7 to 6.8 (I
didn't use my new 3.2 tho). Got blown off the water on my 8'8 cfx and so went
shopping and found a used '94 7'11 windance epoxy for $300 (at Windance). Man
is that board a gas when its blowing hard. Will be a good Rio board. My
girlfriend was up with me for the first 2 wks and it turns out that the Gorge
can be a fine place for beginners. She did lessons in May at Spinnaker and has
practiced some since on a 10'8. We brought that, but she migrated over to my
9'0 while up there and started getting waterstarts and such. She first sailed
inside at the Hook, then we spent several afternoons at the Marina Sailpark.
There, I'd simply sail downstream/upwind to the event center (and on to Wells
Island one day), then go downwind to checkin and such. Worked great. It was
really educational to watch all the ~good~ sailors up there. Wow. I didn't
quite get jibes going, but my jumps are definitely better. Seeya,

Jeff
http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~hodges/

ps: and the food up there is really good too (burp)

pps: I took my kids (6 & 7) up there the last week and they loved it. Had 'em
take lessons at Rhonda's which worked well. Also found a bbsitter who'd hang
with us while I sailed (at Swell). Boys were having such a great time building
boats from sticks & launching them in the river that they said "sail another
hour daddy!" when I came in (exhausted) after a total of four hours (8'8/5.7).

 



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