Re: Signing off

From: Booker Bense (bbense@prospero.Stanford.EDU-DeleteThis)
Date: Thu Jan 08 1998 - 17:27:25 PST


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- If you don't have a volunteer to take over the wind-talk
archive, I'd be willing. I have archives of it for at least
a year or so. It'd take me a little while to get all the bits
in place for searching it.

- Booker C. Bense : bbense@stanford.edu-DeleteThis

On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Jack Greenbaum wrote:

>
> Dear Wind Talk,
>
> It's been a fun five years. I've gone from just barely water starting to
> air-time, controlled landings, and jibing on swells out in the
> channel. Unfortunately quality of life has not followed quality of
> wind. So in a week my family and I are leaving Silicon Valley for the
> less windy but much less crowded environment of Santa Barabara. My wife
> is so happy to be moving back to Santa Barbara that she's agreed to let
> me spend the money to get a light wind rig (SB winds are 10-12 kts in
> the summer), but it just won't be the same as consistant 5.0 on the bay.
>
> This move has required a change of employer (luckily not a compromise),
> therefore I'll have to abandon my wind_talk archive on the web,
> http://www.crc.ricoh.com/~jackg/wind_talk.cgi. It is still there, but is
> only current up to the beginning of December. I know that many of you
> have found this archive useful, so I'd like to encourage someone else to
> provide this resource since I believe that Ken cannot. I doubt that my
> set up will work elsewhere, but would be happy to provide encouragement
> and support for anyone who can provide disk and server. My tide chart
> page, http://www.rahul.net/cgi-bin/stain/tide-charts.cgi, and the Third
> Ave, http://www.rahul.net/stain/third/, will stay where they are for at
> least another two months. Bob Colopy might take back over the Third Ave
> page, which I had taken over from him, but if he doesn't I'll post to
> this list.
>
> Thanks for all the encouragement to keep maintaining these sites over
> the years. When I haven't been able to get to the water they have given
> me a way to work out my sailing jones. The occasional "thank you" email
> has made it easier when time got short to keep things running. I hope
> that someone else will have the resources to continue.
>
> And thanks to Ken for this list! It helped me get up to speed on the
> bay, and meet many of you out there.
>
> Take care, all. I'll be reachable at j.greenbaum@computer.org-DeleteThis for any
> questions about starting up a new wind_talk archive or taking over the
> tide charts or Third Ave site.
>
> -- Jack Greenbaum
>
>
>



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