Received: by zonker.hpl.hp.com (1.37.109.8/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1) id AA05988; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 01:48:46 -0700 Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 01:48:46 -0700 From: Ken Poulton <poulton@zonker.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis> Return-Path: <poulton@zonker.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis> Message-Id: <9509180848.AA05988@zonker.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis> To: wind_talk@zonker.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis Subject: Crissy Sun
============= Sun 17 Sep 95 - Crissy - 6.0/9'1,8'8 (183#)
I met Luigi (yes, the now-infamous Luigi) at Crissy. Windtalker
readings seemed kind of marginal, but the readings on the Peninsula
seemed worse. After some amount of futzing around so he could use my
old 6.2, we launched about 4:00. I had 6.0/9'1, he had 6.2/8'8, and to
our surprise, it had filled in while we rigged and we were powered right
off the beach.
We were powered all the way across and we took a few reaches.
Then as I was waterstarting, I felt my boom die - one arm moved a
good inch or two. I tied it down and sailed back on the other arm.
Back to the car for my other boom, put it on, and off we go. Whoops,
blew my beach start, dropped the boom, and the nose of my 9'1 (2nd time
out) is now broken! :-( So I swapped for my 8'8 and away we went. The
wind had picked up some and the 8'8 was now actually a better call anyway.
On the North side, we found water that was flatter than Candlestick, but
we were nicely powered up.
Only... my harness line kept slipping off my new Reactor bar's roller.
This turned out to be a good prescription for launching a board
a long ways downwind, swim, swim, swim. After one more repetition,
I figured out my Reactor bar is bent (too much over-the-handlebar action
last session, no doubt), so I limped back in to swap spreader bars.
*Finally* we started sailing in earnest. My goal was to sail under the
bridge for the first time. We started out great, pointing right at
the North tower despite the mild flood, and then the wind backed off a
bit. We beat back and forth towards the bridge, but the wind always got
marginal when we got close. We gave up when we got to within a hundred
yards or so and the wind started getting really dicey. So... I still
have a goal for the next time at Crissy. We sailed in around 7:00 as
the sun set. A much better session than expected for this time of year!
Now I'm off to ASD with a lot of broken gear...
Ken Poulton
poulton@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis
"A man's got to know his limitations." -- Dirty Harry (Clint Eastwood)
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