Received: from opus.hpl.hp.com (opus-fddi.hpl.hp.com) by jr.hpl.hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.24/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1) id AA017681810; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 08:23:30 -0700 Return-Path: <waledisc@nicmad.nicolet.com-DeleteThis> Received: from hplms26.hpl.hp.com by opus.hpl.hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.24/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1) id AA208451809; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 08:23:29 -0700 Received: from atina.com ([204.95.179.100] (may be forged)) by hplms26.hpl.hp.com (8.8.6/8.8.6 HPLabs Relay) with SMTP id IAA09384 for <wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis>; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 08:23:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nicmad.nicolet.com ([89.0.22.212]) by atina.com (4.1/SMI-4.1(dpo V1.3)) id AA23803; Fri, 10 Apr 98 10:20:07 CDT X-Envelope-To: wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis Received: from by nicmad.nicolet.com (4.1/SMI-4.1(dpo.2.41)) id AB07567; Fri, 10 Apr 98 10:20:02 CDT Message-Id: <2.2.32.19980410151958.006b808c@nicmad.nicolet.com-DeleteThis> X-Sender: waledisc@nicmad.nicolet.com-DeleteThis X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 08:19:58 -0700 To: wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis From: Claude Waledisch <waledisc@nicmad.nicolet.com-DeleteThis> Subject: Re: A day in the life of a windsurfer - survival story
>Failure mode 2 - the universal rubber hourglass shears/rips: To prevent
this, the mast
>base universal has this blue webbing on either side of the hourglass. If the
>hourglass rips, the webbing holds this together. So, it's important to
have a mast
>base that has this safety feature. I have seem some tendon type universals
with a
>little crappy piece of line that supposedly serves the same purpose; looks
flimsy to
>me.
Looks flimsy but did the job last year at 3rd on a 3.7 day when the tendon
had snapped. I did not know it, silly me wandering why I was going upwind so
well overpower as heck!!! It was ebbing, I got scared in a hurry, although
I was fortunate to be close to shore (200 yards). I waved my arms making the
distress signals and was spotted by Jerome who came by right away (Thanks
again). I started to swim to shore and walked to get spare UJ. That little
piece of rope held very well from the channel marker almost all the way to
shore and luckily my ASD Rkt did not sow any scratches.
Claude
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