Received: from hplms26.hpl.hp.com by opus.hpl.hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.18/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1) id AA079246682; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 08:18:02 -0700 Return-Path: <fro@itsa.ucsf.edu-DeleteThis> Received: from itsa.ucsf.edu by hplms26.hpl.hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1S) id AA184216682; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 08:18:02 -0700 Received: from [128.218.157.65] (frohlichm.ucsf.EDU [128.218.157.65]) by itsa.ucsf.edu (8.8.5/CDR8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA52138 for <wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis>; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 08:14:11 -0700 Message-Id: <v03007801b00125450ad4@[128.218.157.65]> In-Reply-To: <33DB584C.248B@mother.com-DeleteThis> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 08:18:32 -0800 To: wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis From: Mark Frohlich <fro@itsa.ucsf.edu-DeleteThis> Subject: Re: Delta Breeze gives an all day blow job
Shoulda gone to the delta yesterday!
>FAMED CALIFORNIA STRIPPER--DELTA BREEZE--KEEPS HER CLIENTS IN ECSTASY
>FOR HOURS
>
>"I was feeling so bad. I asked my family doctor just what I had ... I
>got the fever. She's got the cure."
>
>Its been a relatively slow season for me. Except for trips to Baja and
>Maui, I've only been managing to sail about once a week. On Saturday, I
>was ready. My needs coincided with my mistress's--Delta Breeze. At
>7:30 AM, the pager was reading 20 mph (usually a 4.7 or 5.2 sail for
>me), but the water looked 4.2 friendly. I rigged the 4.2, jumped on the
>Windance 7'11" and had one of the best flood tide sessions of the year.
>Sailed upwind from the powerlines to the sign. Here and there was a
>great ramp for launching airtime. On the far side of the river, the
>wind was stronger. From the in front of the homes where the wind
>sensors live upwind to the sign, there was very flat water for high
>speed jibes. The downwind run back to the powerlines was awesome, full
>power from Delta and pigpen's lyric cruising through my brain. No one
>else on that part of the river, and I was singing along at the top of my
>lungs.
>
>After a rest, the call was 4.7, then switch to the floaty 8'6" Gem. The
>tide is ebbing now, but there isn't much in the way of swell. About
>1:00 the wind has kicked in a notch and its back to the small board.
>Then its tighten up the sail a bit to keep better control in the gusts.
>As the ebb progresses and the wind continues to build, the swells starts
>to increase. The 4.7 gets uncomfortable, so I switch back to the 4.2
>still rigged on the "beach". The tops of the biggest swells are chest
>high. On the far side of the river, they get are steep and large enough
>to gybe on the face. Every once and a while you can hit a perfect steep
>ramp, fully powered and waist to chest high. At about 3:30 the wind was
>getting a little flukey for the 4.2 and the swell is decreasing. After
>a solid 6-7 hours on the water, I am just too beat to consider switching
>back to the 4.7.
>
>As I leave my mistress to return to my wife, I see she has forsaken her
>Sherman Island clients (to whom she is giving 5.0 attention) to the
>benefit of her Windy Cove to Glass Beach clients. The wind is solid
>4.0.
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Mark W. Frohlich, M.D. 415-502-5127 (fax)
Box 0724 415-476-2540 (lab)
University of California, 415-719-3115 (pager)
San Francisco, CA 94143-0724 fro@itsa.ucsf.edu-DeleteThis
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