Re: Best place to practice waterstarts

From: Vladimir Minenko (minenko@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU-DeleteThis)
Date: Thu Jul 30 1998 - 20:55:10 PDT 

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Dmitri Medvedev wrote:
>
> Can anyone suggest a good location to practice waterstarts?
> I just learned how to waterstart in the ABK camp but we didn't
> have enough wind the next day for me to successfully waterstart
> once (I had a small rental sail). I guess an ideal waterstart
> location should be shallow so that you can clear the sail more
> easily to focus more on the technique. Thanks,

I would suggest Coyote Point. It has a large sand beach and usually
you get enough wind on the beach to waterstart. You can just
walk a bit along the beach to get up-wind, the water is quite warm
too.

But, please DO NOT do this in the launch area, move to the left or
to the right part of the beach.

Have fun

Vladimir

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