Return-Path: <Owain.Chilton@geio.ge.com-DeleteThis> Received: from opus.labs.agilent.com (root@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis [130.29.244.179]) by jr.labs.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 AgilentLabs Workstation) with ESMTP id KAA28871 for <wind_talk_ls@jr.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis>; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 10:28:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msgbas1tx.cos.agilent.com (msgbas1t.cos.agilent.com [130.29.152.59]) by opus.labs.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 AgilentLabs Workstation) with ESMTP id KAA18500 for <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis>; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 10:28:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unknown-147.101.pilot.net (unknown-147-101.pilot.net [198.232.147.101]) by msgbas1tx.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 121EF5C9 for <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis>; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 11:28:26 -0600 (MDT) Received: from unknown-24-4.pilot.net (unknown-24-4.pilot.net [206.189.24.4]) by unknown-147.101.pilot.net with ESMTP id KAA25071 for <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis>; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 10:28:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from roc02bxhgeisge.is.ge.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by unknown-24-4.pilot.net with ESMTP id KAA15020 for <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis>; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 10:28:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by roc02bxhgeisge.is.ge.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id <Q1KMNV5Q>; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 13:22:47 -0400 Message-ID: <499F26102ADED21192E30008C75DFD270603FCBB@roc07bxgeisge.is.ge.com-DeleteThis> From: "Chilton, Owain (GEIO)" <Owain.Chilton@geio.ge.com-DeleteThis> To: "'wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis'" <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis> Subject: RE: Wave rules Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 13:25:16 -0400 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0)
The rule is that the person going out has right of way. This is a surfing
rule. For windsurfing, in the prevailing conditions in NorCal, the person
going out has double rights because they are on starboard tack. Having said
that, it is polite to try and keep out of the way of someone who is surfing
in on a wave. So if you are planing, bear off or head up so as not to impede
the progress of the surfer. If you are heading out and slogging, there's not
a lot you can do, so the surfer should avoid you.
Cheers.....Owain.
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From: tmurguz@amre.com-DeleteThis [mailto:tmurguz@amre.com-DeleteThis]
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 9:10 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: RE: Wave rules
1. Going out has right of way over someone coming in. (when coming in, you
have much more manueverability and less risk of getting munched than someone
going out, so it's polite to give way)
I do not think this is true, and recall this same discussion about a year
ago.
If a sailor on a wave is going down the line, and the outbound sailor cuts
off
his down the line progress, ending the wave, the outbound sailor has
barneyed.
If the premise of wavesailing is to ride waves, then the surf rules apply.
The
surf rule is simple; avoid the person on the wave. They have enough to deal
with already, and a person going out has more degrees of freedom than the
person
on a wave whose ideal path is dictated by the wave (and the kelp in late
summer). the sailor going out can sail off the wind, pinch upwind, stall,
chicken jibe, tack and do whatever else is possible to avoid the person
already
on the wave.
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