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Oh Jerry, you are so valiant!
-----Original Message-----
From: Gerald Mountain <gry1@pacbell.net-DeleteThis>
To: Multiple recipients of list <wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis>
Date: Friday, April 30, 1999 1:30 PM
Subject: RE: Thur at 3rd
>I had the same experience yesterday. All that I was thinking:
>
>Whatever doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
>
>GRY1
>
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>From: Ken Poulton[SMTP:poulton@zonker.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis]
>Sent: Friday, April 30, 1999 12:46 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list
>Subject: Thur at 3rd
>
>============= Thu 29 Apr 99 - 3rd - 4.4/257 (196#)
>
>When we got to 3rd, Robin was in rigging down to her 3.7! This was
>hard to believe from the look of the water near shore, but I knew
>from Tuesday that her 3.7 was a good match for me on a 4.4, so
>I did 4.4, Michael a 3.9.
>
>In a reverse of our usual pattern, Michael had to slog out quite a ways
>to get going, but I caught a puff and planed almost from the launch.
>"It's just my day," I thought. It was great in the channel from 3:15 to
>4:00. Swell was a less than I expected for this wind and the ebb - only
>3-4 feet. But still very nice sailing.
>
>About 4:00 Michael was noticing the wind dropping, but I was still okay.
>10 or 15 minutes later, I was convinced it was time to rig a bit bigger
>but we found that the wind direction had shifted much more westerly
>as well. So we took a couple of runs back into the channel to get
>further upwind. Bad Idea.
>
>Michael did succeed in sailing in, but I (on my very sinky board) got
>becalmed by the channel marker (no further upwind than I started). I
>slogged and fell, swam, body-dragged and finally got down to where I could
>walk on the sandbar between the channel mark and the bridge. It took
>about another hour to walk down to the shore, but with the falling tide,
>at least I knew I could just walk there. Met up with Robin halfway down
>the bar. Mayor Jay came in the same way another half hour later.
>
>It was good exercise, just not what we had in mind...
>
>
>Ken Poulton
>poulton@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis
>
>"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.
> An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered."
> -- G. K. Chesterton
>
>
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