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and blow the whistle that you have around your neck....
Kirk out
Tim Roberts wrote:
>
> When needing assistance, i think it's important to wave your arms above
> your head. It can be real hard to hear people say much of anything on
> the water.
>
> t
>
> Bob Prevett wrote:
>
> > Sailing at Crissy Sunday 4/26. About 2/3 the way across I jibe over
> > from port to
> > starboard tack and my Chinook boom broke apart once I powered up onto
> > the new tack.
> > Examining the trashed boom, things didn't look good. The boom snapped
> > up near the
> > front end on the starboard side and then snapped at the rear end on
> > the port side.
> > This sucks because I couldn't flip the boom and sail in on the intact
> > side; there was
> > no intact side.
> >
> > What I ended up doing was pulling out the back end and reinserting the
> > intact
> > starboard side backend into the intact port side boom/frontend.
> > Basically, it looked
> > like a big "S". Then, I flipped the boom upside down and put in on
> > the starboard
> > side. Tied off the clew of the sail to the backwards back end, pulled
> > off a very
> > clumsy waterstart with this contraption, and I was on my way back to
> > the beach.
> > Powered up, my sail looked like a big sailboat Genoa jib, but it
> > worked fine for going
> > on a broad reach. In the 20 minutes it took to jury rig the boom and
> > sail, the strong
> > ebb current had carried me to almost underneath the bridge, so broad
> > reaching was
> > fortunately the appropriate point of sail to get back. I actually was
> > able to plane
> > most of the way back with this hokey setup.
> >
> > While I was out there trying to work out a way to get back, I only saw
> > one other
> > windsurfer that came close (I was fairly upwind). As he sailed by me,
> > I tried to wave
> > him down. When he got close, I yelled "broken boom!" It would have
> > been great if he
> > had stopped, checked out my situation, and gone in for a boom for me
> > to use to get
> > back, or hung out and helped me put something together. Instead, he
> > just kept sailing
> > right by me, with a smug look, maybe thinking I was a struggling
> > novice having
> > waterstart problems.
> >
> > Lessons learned:
> >
> > * Most boom failure breakdowns will allow for some sort of self
> > rescue, as long as the
> > head remains intact and can still attach to the mast. Even if the
> > backend was
> > completely gone, I could have attached the clew to the boom spar with
> > some line and
> > sailed it like a spinnaker sail.
> >
> > * Breaking down in a full ebb out in the middle at Crissy is scary;
> > it's amazing how
> > fast you can get pulled out past the Bridge.
> >
> > * Never lose your cool; stay calm and try to work out a viable
> > self-rescue plan if at
> > all possible.
> >
> > * It's a good idea to checkout downed sailors. I usually do this at
> > 3rd, as do
> > others. You just cruise by, see if things look OK. If are not
> > obviously OK, just
> > yell out "Everything OK?" and get a response.
> >
> > BobP
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