Re: Coyote to Alameda?

From: Rick Cattell (Rick.Cattell@Eng.Sun.COM-DeleteThis)
Date: Tue Jun 01 1999 - 21:38:58 PDT

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From: Rick.Cattell@Eng.Sun.COM-DeleteThis (Rick Cattell)
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Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 21:38:58 -0700
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My, this topic certainly brought a lot of responses! Sounds like there are a lot
of explorers out there, thanks Ken for the interesting account of the San Leandro
trip. I'm curious how hard it is for 3 or 4 people to stay within sight of
each other on a long trip; every 5 minutes whoever's in front has to stop and
wait for the others, I guess. Sounds like it worked for you till you lost Jay.
With a larger crowd we might want to break up into groups of 3 or 4 according
to speed or abilities.

That makes sense, that 3rd Avenue to San Leandro would offer more consistent
wind. Somehow Alameda beach seemed like a more interesting destination than
rocks.

Martin that makes sense that the wind shifts more to the West as you cross the
bay, that's why I used WNW instead of NW in my calculation.

Those of you who respond that you're interested, I'll send you email this weekend
and see how we want to organize, where, and when. Remember that when you respond to
wind_talk messages like this one your response goes to everyone, you need to explicitly
use my email address. Please send me some indication of your sailing abilities and
constraints. I'm aiming for Wednesday June 23 if you can take off work and
the wind cooperates, 'cause I'm not seeing a great weekend tide soon. I'm happy
to start from 3rd Avenue or Coyote.

In response to Jerry, I bought my waterproof fanny pack at the mountaineering
shop in the shopping center on Winchester just North/East of 280 in San Jose, but
I'm not sure they're still in business. I noticed West Marine Products was selling
them too, but they only had the larger size (for large fannies, I guess!) when
I looked. They roll up at the top to keep the water out, and I only get a few
drops of water on the roughest days. I keep my waterproof VHF in the
waterproof fanny pack, I've been out 100 times with it and I've had to return
the VHF one time for water damage (they gave me a brand new one). I have to
bend over the rubber antenna to fit it in but it doesn't seem to have hurt it.

Bob, by my chart the "4" and "5" markers are on a direct path from Coyote to
Alameda, but they are exactly 1/3 of the way, not 1/2 way as would seem sensible.

Rick.

Bob Previtt wrote:
>
>I have never sailed all the way to Alameda/Crown Beach, but I have been about
>halfway
>across about a half dozen times; near those tall channel markers that are close
>to
>each other (#6 and #7, I think). The wind has always seemed to get light as I
>got
>close to those channel markers. I think what happens is that the farther one
>goes
>across in that direction, you get out of the "wind slot" that lines up with the
>San
>Bruno gap. I would expect that this effect would get worst the farther you go
>across
>the Bay toward Alameda.
>
>
>

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