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============= Mon 17? Feb 97 - Coyote - 5.4/257 (186#)
Driving to 3rd, I made all 6 lights. This must be a good omen, right?
But the wind had dropped off a lot, and after planning on a 5.4,
rigging the big gear seemed too disappointing.
So with our wind-snob noses in the air, Michael and I went to Orchard
for hardware, and came back - no wind. Then we went to ASD for parts
and to drool on their boards. When we came out, voila! it was windy! We
rigged 5.4/257 and 4.8/8'6 at Coyote, and went out and had a nice time.
One of the few times when wind-snobbery has actually paid off.
============= Thu 27 Feb 97 - 3rd - 4.2,3.7/257 (186#)
It was pretty windy. In fact, it was about 30g35 knots all afternoon.
It didn't look all that big from the shore, so I rigged 4.2 and
got hammered. I was having a hard time sailing much at all, and
I wasn't even going out very far where it was even windier. Meanwhile
skinny Michael was sailing along, making his jibes on a borrowed 4.0!
I eventually made it back up to the launch and rigged down to 3.7.
I was still getting hammered, and I was also getting tired, so
I didn't last very long.
Nice to get out and get some real wind!
------------- Sun 23 Mar 97
Went to Coyote because of marginal water level at 3rd, but I should
have known better. The wind was direction 270 at SFO, so wind line
was waaay offshore at Coyote. I just couldn't get myself revved up to
slog all that way out.
I should have got to 3rd. JimP reported planing off from the launch at
3:30.
============= Wed 27 Mar 97 - 3rd - 6.0/257 (190#)
21 knots at 1:00 really got my attention. So what if it dropped to
16 at 2:00? 22 at SoSF and 19 at Coyote convinced Michael and I to head
to 3rd.
Well, it was more like 16 than 21. As a hedge in case it came back up,
we took small boards but big sails - 6.0 for me, 5.4 for Michael. This
got us planing right from the shore, through a long marginal reach out
to the channel. Where it was also marginal. As usual in marginal
conditions, Michael sailed while I slogged. But after 20 minutes or so it
built some and we had an hour of very nice powered-up sailing. A little
swell in the channel, a few jumps. Michael's duck jibe is getting
pretty good.
About 4:40 the wind died; just went MIA. I figured it would come back,
but by the time it did about 5:00, my winter-flab arms were wasted from
trying to sail back in knee-deep. At least it gave me a nice quick
ride back in.
Seemed like most of the 3rd regulars were there. A very nice day.
Mayor Jay reports 6 sailing days in March!
Ken Poulton
poulton@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis
"The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all."
--Jawaharlal Nehru
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