X-OldHeader: From windrider@ProtectOurBay.com-DeleteThis.com Wed Aug 29 10:30:17 2001 Return-Path: <windrider@ProtectOurBay.com-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 KAA07170 for <wind_talk_ls@jr.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 10:30:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msgbas2.sgp.agilent.com (msgbas2.sgp.agilent.com [141.183.101.231]) by opus.labs.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 AgilentLabs Workstation) with ESMTP id KAA21129 for <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 10:30:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail01a.rapidsite.net (mail01a.rapidsite.net [207.158.192.230]) by msgbas2.sgp.agilent.com (Postfix) with SMTP id DDA1B79C for <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 01:30:27 +0800 (SGP) Received: from www.protectourbay.com (207.201.167.48) by mail01a.rapidsite.net (RS ver 1.0.60s) with SMTP id 024058079 for <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 13:00:59 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 10:02:10 -0700 Subject: Re: Tues & Safety Issues From: Richard Zimmerman <windrider@ProtectOurBay.com-DeleteThis.com> To: <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com> Message-ID: <B7B26E21.7F01%windrider@ProtectOurBay.com-DeleteThis.com> In-Reply-To: <3B8D126B.D3A1E6AF@ix.netcom.com-DeleteThis.com> X-Loop-Detect: 1
So what's the bottom line on the downed rider? Did he make it in? Does
anyone know who it was?
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> From: Kirk Lindstrom <KirkLindstrom@ix.netcom.com-DeleteThis.com>
> Reply-To: wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com
> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 09:21:23 -0700 (PDT)
> To: Multiple recipients of list WIND_TALK <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>
> Subject: Re: Tues & Safety Issues
>
>
> I sailed Coyote yesterday and Monday on my 5.5 NOA (not much low end) and 8'9"
> Enduro. (I'm 228 lbs)
>
> Monday it was good for 2 hrs until the SW shift then there was a long schlog,
> multiple dunking swim/schlog in... I made sure I was well upwind before
> coming
> in and I don't go out that far unless I feel I can get far upwind...made it
> back
> to the launch point with longer arms, but otherwise fine. One of the nicest,
> smoothest days of the year!
>
> Tuesday it was rocking at 2PM and I again rigged the 5.5/8'9"E and it died
> inside but kept showing puff waves in and out. Many of us took those puffs
> out
> risking smaller gear at about 2:45. It was great wind and disorganized chop
> with good swells outside but after an hr I noticed I was "way upwind" at the
> channel markers... Since I was not working at pointing... I felt it might be a
> wind shift and looked at the hills and saw fog forming over Coyote which is
> often a bad sign for it to die (SW shift) so I headed in at 4PM. Sailing dead
> into the chop at that time was a 2nd clue of a Westerly wind shift. Planned
> most of the way in and had to schlog the last mile or so doing the hula as it
> was near dead again with the occasional puffs. It looked crappy still when I
> left just before 5PM and the wind seemed to be way outside.
>
> 3rd is often much better than Coyote in W and SW wind shifts as the fog on the
> hills is further North making 3rd less shifty.
>
> We need more information to teach "self rescue". Someone reported a down
> sailor
> due to a break of the boom that attaches it to the mast. I offered a bunch of
> line to anyone that was rigged and wanted to try to find the person but nobody
> had large enough gear rigged who felt they could risk sailing out in the dead
> wind. The sail pocket should hold the boom up if you just toss a few lashes
> around it. It will slide but stay up... Then you can body drag in or water
> start
> and arm sail in. Even better if you have more line as you can tie a long
> piece
> to the tip of your sail "maybe... not some of my sails..." and then tie it to
> the boom with a few lashes around the mast.
>
> Nobody should sail out of Coyote beyond the pole in the swimming area with out
> line, a strobe and perhaps a whistle. I keep these in a $6 camera bag on a
> belt
> around my waiste and held up by my harness. The belt goes through the belt
> loop
> on the bag and I then use the clips for the shoulder strap to run more line
> around the bag many time and thru the belt loop to make a 2nd belt loop of
> sorts
> as a backup. The thing bangs the waves in the channel telling me it is still
> there and is really no bother. I also keep a marine radio inside my wetsuit
> against my chest (won't be too comfortable for Dolly Parton...).
>
> You can actually make a boom sailable even if it breaks on both sides of the
> head... just lash it to either side of the sail, play Kon-Tiki and body drag
> in... you just need somethign to get the sail in the air and float you towards
> home... Also, you are easy to spot that way and are clearly in distress. Put
> the strobe on your arm and let it flash while dragging and all will know for
> sure!
>
> Lastly.. Some devotes of Darwinismn are still sailing in shorties in the
> channel
> at Coyote. Whales have enough blubber to survive overnight but few others
> do...
> I'm wearing my 4/3 all the time and often have to jump in to cool off but that
> beats the alternative if I have to spend a night in the water.
>
> Kirk out
>
>
> rossb@WellsFargo.COM-DeleteThis.com wrote:
>
>> I headed out of my office to go to 3rd, but the 3:30 page from Coyote showed
>> WSW. I don't like WSW on the peninsula, so I changed plans and went to
>> Isabel. From Ken's note, it would seem as though shifting wind was not an
>> issue. True?
>>
>> Cindoll
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ken Poulton [mailto:poulton@zonker.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 10:32 PM
>> To: Multiple recipients of list WIND_TALK
>> Subject: Tues at 3rd
>>
>> ============= Tue 28 Aug 01 - 3rd - 4.7/257 (196#) 3:30-5:30
>>
>> 22 knots at 2:00 got me out of the office, and 24-27 knots from 3:00 to
>> 5:00 made me happy!
>>
>> Water was fairly choppy, but also had big swells, even as it turned to
>> flood.
>
> --
> best regards
> Kirk Lindstrom
> Editor: "Kirk's Investing & Personal Finance" @ Suite101.com
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> and "Kirk's Online Newsletter"
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>
>
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