Protect Windsurfing in SF Bay - Important! (SFBA November eNewsletter)

From: George Haye (geohaye@hotmail.com-DeleteThis)
Date: Fri Nov 26 1999 - 02:12:01 PST

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Subject: Protect Windsurfing in SF Bay - Important! (SFBA November eNewsletter)
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 02:12:01 -0800
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SAN FRANCISCO BOARDSAILING ASSOCIATION - SFO COMMITTEE
NOVEMBER 1999 E-NEWSLETTER
Written by: George Haye, Member of the SFBA Board of Directors
THIS EMAIL IS A TOOL! READ IT, SAVE IT, AND SHARE IT.

IMPORTANT 10-SECOND SURVEY: Tell us how many days per year you sail at Peninsula sites (including Coyote Point and Third Avenue, etc.), and tell your friends to fill out the survey, too: http://www.hooked.net/~wndrider/sfia/level2/survey.html

HELP KEEP WINDSURFING SAFE AND LEGAL! THE SFBA is leading campaigns all over the Bay to protect our sport. Please join now or renew your SFBA membership: http://www.sfba.org/member.html

CRITICAL!: Bookmark/Favorites the SFBA URGENT ALERTS webpage and check back often: http://www.hooked.net/~wndrider/urgent/alerts.html. SFBA makes it EASY (and trust me, it's fun) to take direct action and protect our spots! * CURRENT LIVE ALERTS: SAVE THIRD AVENUE PARKING, PROTECT COYOTE POINT FROM OFFICE DEVELOPMENT, HELP CREATE NEW WINDSURF SPOT NEAR THIRD AVENUE, URGE GOVERNOR DAVIS TO APPOINT BCDC COMMISSIONERS. *

E N D O F D A Y S for windsurfing at Coyote Point, Third Avenue, and many other top spots? SFO's planned runway expansion threatens 8 of the best urban windsurf spots in the world. (For more info: http://www.sfba.org/sfo.htm) Countless other severe impacts -- including increases in airplane noise and freeway traffic across the entire region would also result from SFO's desired substantial increase in flight capacity. Real regional long-term transportation solutions and technological solutions are needed. The notion that an airport basically located in Millbrae WITH NO LAND should serve the entire sprawling Bay Area, must be discarded immediately. A fierce opposition movement has been ignited - involving scientists, community leaders, environmental groups, recreational users, pilots, university professors, commuters, elected officials, lawyers, environmental consultants... If everyone (that includes all of us!) gets involved, WE WILL STOP SFO from destroying the Bay.

SAVE THE BAY is one of the top groups working to protect the Bay and Bay access. If you join, tell them you are a windsurfer concerned with loss of access due to SFO's runway expansion - regardless of whether the runway expansion is done by floating runways, piers, or bay fill. To join: http://www.savesfbay.org/joinhtml

CALL OF THE WIND has been a huge supporter of our campaigns to protect access (by sending tons of folks to us via links from their website). Their wind pager service is awesome and it's getting better all the time: http://www.windcall.com/

FUNDING FOR A SFBA STAFF PERSON: There has been much talk that a full-time permanent SFBA staff person is needed to maximize the effectiveness of the group, coordinate our many projects, and create new activities. Currently, our all-volunteer group relies on people donating their few moments of free time. We're getting by, but we could do so much more. As of now, member dues alone do not provide enough funds for SFBA's current activities plus a staff person's salary. Ideas regarding sources of funding for this can be sent to me (geohaye@hotmail.com-DeleteThis).

SHOCKER: Modified Satellite Photo of approximately what SFO wants to do: http://www.hooked.net/~wndrider/sfia/level2/fullsize.html. Coyote Point access is from the long, curved beach in the bottom right-hand corner. You can see how we would be cut off from the open Bay.

SF Chronicle SFO/Windsurf: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/09/02/SP102407.DTL
Wall St Journal Article: http://interactive.wsj.com/public/current/articles/SB936132964167379074.htm
SF Chronicle Coyote: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/03/29/MN82216.DTL
KTVU / Fox 2 BayInsider Coyote Article: http://www.bayinsider.com/recreation/windsurfing/coyotewind.html
Save The Bay's Comments for the SFO Environmental Impact Report: http://www.savesfbay.org/news090799.html
Bookmark/Favorites the STOP SFO webpage and check back often: http://www.hookednet/~wndrider/sfia/sfia.html

EMAIL IS A KEY TO PROTECTING OUR SPOTS. Tell your friends who do not have email yet to get it now. Collect email addresses from your friends and at the beach when you go windsurfing in the year 2000, and pass them on to us: geohaye@hotmail.com.-DeleteThis (We will not give our email list to anyone.)

WANT TO GET MORE INVOLVED with the campaign against the SFO runway expansion? Want to help on projects? Lend your expertise to the campaign? Help get other groups and citizens involved? Send an email to Richard Zimmerman (wndrider@hooked.net-DeleteThis) and tell him you want to join the SFBA SFO Committee.

WINDSURFER SAVES JUMPER: Scott Ostler, SF Chronicle Sports Writer, was trying to contact the windsurfers who saved the Golden Gate Bridge jumper in October. If you know who the windsurfing rescuers were, contact Scott Ostler: ostler@sfgate.com-DeleteThis or (415) 777-7031. Perhaps he'll do a follow-up article if he finds out who the rescuers were. Here's a link to the first article. "Hats off" to you Crissy Field sailors.... http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/11/10/MN77694.DTL.
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Thanks for reading this eNewsletter. If you have ideas, want to express support, etc., email me: geohaye@hotmail.com-DeleteThis

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I found these song lyrics by the extraordinary Australian rock band Midnight Oil appropriate to place here. The song describes the upwelling of emotion that occurs upon realization that a cherished surf spot is threatened. A profound need to protect it is engendered.

This is my home
This is my sea
Don't paint it with the future of [runways]
I want to stay, I feel okay
There's nothing else as perfect

Brought up in a world of changes
Short changed by the surfing priest again

Two children in the harbour
They play their game
Write their contract in the sand, it'll be gray for life

The tide forever beckons you to leave
But something holds you back
It's not the promise of a swell or a girl
Just a hope that someday someway it'll be okay
So you stop and say:

This is my home
This is my sea
Don't paint it with the future of [runways]
This is my life
This is my right
I'll stay and I'll fight

-- Excerpted from "Burnie", which is track #13 (unlisted) on the great "Scream in Blue" (Wave) CD (1992).

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