X-OldHeader: From bjames@exponent.com-DeleteThis.com Tue Apr 16 11:07:14 2002 Return-Path: <bjames@exponent.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 LAA16751 for <wind_talk_ls@jr.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 11:07:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msgbas1.cos.agilent.com (msgbas1.cos.agilent.com [192.168.148.33]) by opus.labs.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 AgilentLabs Workstation) with ESMTP id LAA20435 for <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 11:07:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MENLOMAIL1.exponent.com (mail1.exponent.com [66.120.30.140]) by msgbas1.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37B61F504 for <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:07:13 -0600 (MDT) Received: by MENLOMAIL1.exponent.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <JA4BK2MG>; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 11:07:10 -0700 Message-ID: <A798F0085B64F344866B868624C1E41A01E392F2@MENLOMAIL1.exponent.com-DeleteThis.com> From: Brad James <bjames@exponent.com-DeleteThis.com> To: "'wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com'" <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com> Subject: RE: Non-Tuba Tour Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 11:07:09 -0700 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19)
Hey Bob-
nice post...
I'm not a Marin local, just another Peninsula guy too. I've been to Tuba
twice (only sailed once). That was many years ago, I keep thinking that one
of these days, when the conditions and a weekend align I'll head back up
there.
It is a pain to drive, walk your gear from Limantour , and sail upwind to
Tuba, probably not the kind of thing you'd do multiple days per week, like
you'd sail Waddell or 3rd Ave. I guess if you lived close to Tomales, you'd
be more likely to just go there than deal with the Tuba hassle everyday.
>From my point of view, Tuba is a beautiful place, and the wave is pretty
good, with nice side-off wind. Driving from the peninsula, the extra time
to go to and deal with Tuba compared to Tomales isn't that big a deal.
I'd like to try Tuba when it's firing on a nice south swell.
I do have a question for any of you "Tuba local" types... One time when on
a family field trip to the Point Reyes Lighthouse, I realized that Tuba is
much closer to the parking lot where you take the bus to the lighthouse (I
forget what this park area is called). I remember Godsey once saying he
does downwinders to Tuba from this beach. My question is: does anybody just
walk their gear from this lot down to near the Tuba break? It only appeared
to be about twice the distance to the break from this lot compared to the
walk from the Limatour lot down to the beach- so maybe a half mile or so
walk compared to the quarter mile or so from Limantour...
Brad
-----Original Message-----
From: B D [mailto:windtalkposter@hotmail.com-DeleteThis.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 10:29 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list WIND_TALK
Subject: Non-Tuba Tour
Having always wanted to sail Tuba and other mythic places
on the north coast, when BOB GALVAN'S email came out
yesterday I realized I had no meetings and so departed
work in a big hurry, stopping by home to pick up
a safety kit that included many knives, assorted pieces
of rope, an AM radio, and some reading material.
Got to Limantour at 3pm. No windsurfers were there and
especially no BOB GALVAN. Tuba looked interesting but
very far away.
Went on to Tomales, stopping at the first site, Marconi,
and sailed 120% oversubscribed on a 4.1 with 3 other
guys, not including BOB GALVAN. Very flat water, not
what I expected, but very enjoyable. Being in Marin
county, I monitored my "chi" carefully. Perfect balance
was disturbed only momentarily by a sailor who would
swear each time he jibed on the inside. Probably just
a north coast custom.
Got tired, packed up, and decided to make a tour
of the rest of Tomales and Bodega. At Grassi point they
(6 people) were on 3.5's with the ladies on 2.8's.
I approached a group of locals and explained that I had
come up to sail that mythical wavesailing spot known as
Tuba. My simple enthusiasm was met by derision. Nobody
ever sails there, it sucks, why would you haul your gear
all the way down to that beach and then sail 1 mile offshore
with sharks nipping at your tail just to wavesail a 4 ft
beach break when you can roll right up to Tomales and fall in
the water. And of course there was no BOB GALVAN to
rebut these comments.
Was this just the Marin county version of localism? ie
we don't slash your tires: we question your life choices thereby
damaging your self esteem to the point where you spend all
your time in a 12 step program, thus limiting your ability
to drive long distances to sail? Farfetched? You decide.
Moved on to Bodega, where by 6:30 everybody had been scoured
off the beaches. Had steamed mussels at the local watering
hole, drove from Bodega to Redwood city in 1hr 40mins (there's
a road that goes straight to Petaluma/101), and got home at
11pm, thankful that BOB GALVAN got me out of my rut.
Bob Dow
>Subject: Jump up
>Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 11:31:55 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Bob Galvan <kasplash@mac.com-DeleteThis.com>
>. . .
>Tuba today...
>Bob
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