X-OldHeader: From hodges@breakaway.Stanford.EDU-DeleteThis.com Wed May 9 09:11:33 2001 Return-Path: <hodges@breakaway.Stanford.EDU-DeleteThis.com> Received: from opus.labs.agilent.com (root@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com [130.29.244.179]) by jr.labs.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 AgilentLabs Workstation) with ESMTP id JAA19491 for <wind_talk_ls@jr.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>; Wed, 9 May 2001 09:11:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msgbas1t.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 JAA14138 for <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>; Wed, 9 May 2001 09:11:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from breakaway.Stanford.EDU (breakaway.Stanford.EDU [171.64.20.202]) by msgbas1t.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0740A4AF for <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>; Wed, 9 May 2001 10:11:32 -0600 (MDT) Received: from localhost (hodges@localhost) by breakaway.Stanford.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA19566; Wed, 9 May 2001 09:11:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200105091611.JAA19566@breakaway.Stanford.EDU-DeleteThis.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 Subject: turnin' the tables: windsurfer saves boater (no foolin') To: wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com Cc: Jeff.Hodges@kingsmountain.com-DeleteThis.com From: Jeff.Hodges@kingsmountain.com-DeleteThis.com Reply-To: wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 09:11:26 -0700 Sender: hodges@breakaway.Stanford.EDU-DeleteThis.com
this was related to me on Monday by a co-worker who's a very experienced
boardsailor and peninsula/crissy regular.
Seems he (my coworker) was sailing third this last sunday 6-May-2001 (he sez
it was ebbing) and going up to coyote area and back. He's a pretty quiet &
unassuming guy -- I suggested he write this up for this list, but I dunno if
he will. anyway this is just a quick synopsis to relate the overal gist. I
think the story is worth knowing about.
Anyway, I forget whether he said he was going up or coming back down to third,
but he was out in the channel (north of the offshore-of-third channel marker)
and came across a zodiac-style boat chugging along downwind -- with noone in
it. So he managed to clamber aboard & hang onto his rig, and then do a 180 and
head back up the channel. The only immediate sign of a person onboard was a
pair of shoes. The boat engine had been idling, but was engaged in "forward".
anyway, he says he went up the channel about 1/2 mi when he was hailed by
someone in the water who was wondering what he was doing with "his boat". So
he picks the guy up (this is about, you know, a mile offshore, on an ebb, and
the guy is naked (what's the water temp out there these days?)) who says
something about just going for a swim and losing his boat. So the rescuer
sails of and apparently the boat guy goes chugging off (and is hopefully more
careful about taking solo swims out in the channel off his boat).
so if my coworker writes this up i suppose you'll get more details. else,
there y'all go. Little bit of collective karma payback?
Jeff "who's been given a ride in, from outside the Gate on an ebb" H
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