Re: There is a WINDSURF GOD

From: Tim Roberts (robertst@slip.net-DeleteThis)
Date: Thu May 21 1998 - 11:47:19 PDT


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Darin, welcome to the addicted. You are now officially as hopeless as
the rest of us.

Darin WACS wrote:

> Every now and then I feel, as a budding shredder the need to post
> about
> my progress (when the rare milestone occurs.......)
> So here it is: yesterday using 6.0 Gridlock sail, at Shoreline
> .........................and after what felt like an eternity of
> trying and high octane arm pain......
> I WATERSTARTED!
> It was a tremendous feeling, one which I look foreword to repeating
> many times!
> I also want to thank the guys who were at Shoreline yesterday ( they
> seem like they might be on this list) who gave great advice again and
> again.
> Darin
> ----------
> From: WIND-TALK / NTMAIL (wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis)
> To: DARIN WACS / CPA, CH
> Subject: Re: Oyster Point, Flying Tigers, Genentech
> Date: Wednesday, May 20, 1998 9:34PM
>
> <<File Attachment: REOYSTER.TXT>>
> Sender: wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis
> From: stephamm@ix.netcom.com-DeleteThis
> To: Multiple recipients of list <wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis>
>
> >
> >So, what's up with Oyster Point? <
>
> Steve Watson has talked to the Oyster Point Harbor Master on several
> occasions:
>
> They are going to build a concrete windsurf-ramp with steps, a little
> further out than
> the old launch site. The plans and the funding exist, and they are
> going to
> build it this summer.
>
> >The other is the shore access point behind Genentech. That launch
> seems to be in a
> >huge wind shadow. Anyone tried launching from there?
> >
> Most of the time the wind shadow is not so bad, e.g last monday I
> planed on a 4.7
> right from the start. Most of the time it takes one or two waterstarts
>
> to get to
> the windline.
>
> >Are there any other access points to that area that I'm missing?<
>
> I dont think there any others.
>
> Steve Ammann
>
> stephamm@ix.netcom.com-DeleteThis
> or
> sammann@handar.com-DeleteThis
>
> At Handar I design meteorological instruments like cloud-height and
> visibility
> sensors and of all things an ultrasonic windsensor.



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