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yes"!
-zeb
At 10:55 AM 6/3/99 , you wrote:
>Don't you mean "Seatrend 8'11""?
>
>-nang
>
>--- "John A. Ehler" <jehler@cisco.com-DeleteThis> wrote:
>> I sailed from 3rd to the northern most part of
>> Oakland Airport on a random day last
>> year. Seatrend 8'3" (~100L) 6.3 North Prisma. I was
>> relaxing that day so I just kept
>> sailing. Took about 25-35 minutes. At a couple of
>> points I was barely planing.
>> The return was just as easy (no thinking involved).
>> Haven't done it again cause
>> there was no challenge. I have more fun sailing
>> from 3rd to Coyote (and back).
>>
>> The Bay Bridge though....
>>
>> John (#175)
>>
>> At 03:43 PM 6/2/99 , you wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >I've been to Alameda twice (from Coyote) and once
>> to Oakland Airport (from
>> >3rd), always on a 12 ft longboard, and all three
>> times during standard
>> >afternoon summertime conditions. Both times to
>> Alameda I encountered a
>> >humongous wind shadow downwind of San Bruno
>> Mountain, very far off shore.
>> >All three times I had to uphaul a lot and schlog in
>> light winds until the
>> >good winds were re-encountered.
>> >
>> >Destination sailing can be fun, provided you are
>> ready for a very wide
>> >range of sailing conditions, and provided you are
>> prepared to return by
>> >land from a distant unpredictable locale.
>> >
>> >Jim Bjorken
>> >
>>
>>
>
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