Re: Sunday @ TI

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Date: Wed May 24 2000 - 08:41:00 PDT

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Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 11:41:00 EDT
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In a message dated 5/23/00 2:43:43 PM Pacific Daylight Time, Vmoroz@lbl.gov-DeleteThis
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> Several of us sailed from Berkeley up to TI where we stopped for a while.
> We were on sail sizes around 8.4 - 9.5, my wife on a 7.6. We were little
> underpowered but comfortable. I saw a couple of people rigging on a boat
> there. Our group kept sailing upwind to the channel marker where some
> turned
> around and sailed downwind back to Berkeley. My wife and
> I kept sailing upwind and kept cruising the bay and worked our way
> towards the Ferry building where the water was mellow and flat.

I waved to you guys from the shore. I was hoping you could get me some garlic
fries up at Gordon Biersch. My gear is too freeride to get me there. I also
saw the guys rigging from the boat. In fact, I initally thought they were
non-windsurfers helping out a windsurfer in trouble when I saw a sail in the
water next to the boat. I pulled out the binoculars to check it out just as
one of the guys was dropping trow to put on his wetsuit. He apparantly does
not sunbath nude because I got quite a bit of glare off his backside. The
boat people looked like they rigged up around 5.0 sails and they ended up
never getting on a plane and using the boat for a rescue pick up... overall a
good idea, not so good execution. Maybe they didn't have any bigger gear or
maybe the big gear wouldn't fit in the boat. They were able to toss a fully
rigged sail in the boat and maneuver with it there, so I'm sort of curious
about the make and model of the boat. I work on the water so I sometimes have
fantasies about getting to a killer spot without paying toll. It sound like
North Side was a full sail size bigger or more than TI.

I sailed North Side yesterday as the system was shifting from hot to classic
fog machine and there was this incredible microburst about 100 yards
offshore. It was 4.5 -5.2 in the middle but the burst was a 20' streak of
what felt like steady 50+ mph wind. I sailed through it twice without getting
trashed and got dumpoed one time. It would pick me up and throw me about 10'
sideways downwind. It was strong enough that I started wondering if I should
head in at Crissy after having sailed through it three times since the wind
was picking up even more. I ultimately came back through it on a high point
and luckily didn't get backwinded. It was the most overpowered I've been
since about '95. Once on the shore we could see the spot because the blast
would occassionally touch down on the water and kick up a narrow spray like a
fire hose.

Peter

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