Received: from zonker.hpl.hp.com (zonker-fddi.hpl.hp.com) by opus.hpl.hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.18/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1) id AA098904368; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 10:52:48 -0700 Return-Path: <poulton@zonker.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis> Received: (from poulton@localhost) by zonker.hpl.hp.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) id KAA08522 for wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 10:52:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 10:52:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken Poulton <poulton@zonker.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis> Message-Id: <199707081752.KAA08522@zonker.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis> To: wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis Subject: Re: What To Do?/Jibing Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> Estimate at least 60 days on water per year, at least 30 jibe
> attempts per day (usually 1-2 hour sessions), so rough est of at least
> 5,000 attempts, majority in Berkeley chop.
My current estimate is about 10,800 short-board jibe attempts (give or
take 2000) since 1991. I still have days when my jibes just don't seem
to connect and I'm just this year starting to jibe well on the swells
rather than looking for flat spots. Talk about your long learning
curves...
Ken Poulton
poulton@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis
"What a great sport". -- Michael Schuh
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