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> Any guess on how many windsurfers live and sail here?
I once made the following estimate of sailor-days per year:
So let's try to make an estimate for the Bay Area. I'll guess we have
100 sailors at about 20 sites on spring/summer weekend days, call that
52 days -> 104K sailor-days/year. Add 50% more for weekday sailing ->
150K sailor-days/year.
I'm not confident there are actually 20 sites with 100 sailors, but
there must be at least 1000 sailors out on decent weekend days. So I'll
guess that there must be 5 or 10 thousand serious sailors living here,
plus many more of the twice-a-year variety.
Maybe SFBA or the local shops have real numbers...
Ken Poulton
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"Now is the winter of our discontent" -- Richard III, Act I, Scene1, Line 1
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