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jse
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| spennie wrote: | Here's a thing I wrote a couple years ago about a trip to "The Stick":
Let me pause here a moment to tell you about the parking lot at Candlestick. As we pull in, I notice that the windsurfers are all parking along the road instead of in the lot. I remembered parking in the lot last time I was there, so we head for the entrance. Meanwhile an old Monte Carlo is jamming through the lot parallel to us at about 65mph, pretty alarming, but I figure he's leaving, no problem. Where we park there's a beer party at a picnic table, involving 6 or 8 seedy-looking dudes shouting and throwing stuff at a nearby trash can, some guys trying to jump-start some P.O.S. car, and other miscellaneous persons of questionable character. We hop out to use the restroom, and I'm furiously pushing the alarm button on my keychain, to make sure these guys all know it's alarmed. Meanwhile, the "brothers" parked next to me roll down their window 3" and offer to sell me some crack. "No thanks!!" I say cheerfully, so they won't shoot me as a cop. We use the restrooms and haul ass back to the street side parking, glad to be alive |
The reason we don't park there is because they lock the parking lot at 6:00, and they aren't happy if there's a car there that needs to be moved by someone who is a mile offshore.
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victor
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 9:20 am Post subject: |
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| parking outside is closer to the launch, too. |
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kirk
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boggsman1
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 12:02 pm Post subject: |
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Tomales was great Friday if you like 4.5 sailing for three hours and then having Steve deliver a cold bass ale to you onthe beach  |
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jse
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 12:13 pm Post subject: |
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| boggsman1 wrote: | | Tomales was great Friday if you like 4.5 sailing for three hours and then having Steve deliver a cold bass ale to you onthe beach |
Sure was, I can't see how you could hold on to a 4.5 yesterday.
Steve |
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airwave
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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Good sailing with Y'all all, yesterday at Tomales.
Thanks again for the ale. |
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dsgrntlxmply
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| Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 12:36 am Post subject: Bodega Friday 5/4 |
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I rigged a 4.5 at Bodega (Hart's) Friday afternoon, tried handling it for a couple of minutes on dry land, decided that I was unlikely to be able to sail it safely in what a later reading of the graph showed to be 12-30 lull-gust, packed up and went home.
USCG Station Bodega Bay responded to retrieve two jet ski riders and their craft. During previous visits there, the MLBs usually go out in a pair, leaving the harbor at a sedate pace. This time, one MLB departed, and at an impressive speed. I am very glad that I was not on the water to be in its way. |
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boggsman1
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| Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 9:28 am Post subject: |
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| jse wrote: | | boggsman1 wrote: | | Tomales was great Friday if you like 4.5 sailing for three hours and then having Steve deliver a cold bass ale to you onthe beach |
Sure was, I can't see how you could hold on to a 4.5 yesterday.
Steve |
I figured it was 3.5 in the gusty areas, and 5.5 in the dead spots, so I averaged them out. |
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kevinkan
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human_catapult
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| Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 4:31 pm Post subject: Re: Candlestick... getting crowded! |
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| kevinkan wrote: | | Another good weekend at Candlestick. Last weekend saw what seems to be recent-record numbers of windsurfers at Da Stick, and there were even more yesterday. We counted about 30 windsurfers in the water as I was rigging, and there were many more rigging up or just arriving. Probably over 50 total. |
Not to burst your bubble but LeeD says on a slow weekend in the early 90s, there would be no fewer than 700 windsurfers at Candlestick.
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