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windoggi
Joined: 22 Feb 2002 Posts: 2743
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Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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Three days of Isabel...today the best. Big power and big fun. Woof! Woof! Woof! _________________ /w\ |
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bert
Joined: 10 Apr 2000 Posts: 665
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Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 11:33 pm Post subject: Embassy on Tuesday |
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Exceptional session at Embassy from 12:30 to 2:30 on 4.7/90L trifin freewave. My best day of the year. Wind was very steady at 20 to 22 mph from the airport to the channel markers 5 miles up. Good swell action about 300 meters before the markers. My gear, the wind and the water were in such harmony that sailing was almost zen-like. Coming back close to the airport I could feel the vibration from the big jets descending above me and smell the jet fuel. Thought of the movie Apocalypse Now when Robert Duvall says " I like the smell of napalm in the morning..smells like victory" |
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dvCali
Joined: 23 Aug 2007 Posts: 1314
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Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 1:07 am Post subject: Stick June 28 |
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Stick delivers with great 4.3 powered to overpowered conditions. Get there around 2:30 and have it blows consistently until 4. Then it starts to "shorten" ... the south side gets less ans less windy and by 5 there is a corridor of around 500 very windy yards left. A few people sail east toward the last pier were the wind seems to open up more.
Nice day! |
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bert
Joined: 10 Apr 2000 Posts: 665
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Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 8:00 pm Post subject: Tigers on Wednesday |
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Wild session at Tigers. Launched from Oysters on 5.3/110L at 1pm and overpowered at Tigers in 4.3/small board conditions. That's the dilemma in sailing this spot because you need to go big to punch through Genentech, but become overpowered in the gusty, offshore winds at Tigers. Held on for 30 minutes then decided to tighten the outhaul and downhaul. Sailed to a small beach by the big hanger at the NE end of the airport. Heard loud popping sounds, then someone on a bullhorn yelling at me to get the hell out of there. I looked closely and there were people with guns staring at me. I then realized that there's a fucking gun range next to the hanger. I quickly took off with the feeling (or imagining) that there were bullets whizzing by because the gunfire resumed once I left the area. Sailed back to the Oyster ramp stunned. Tigers is a tough enough place to sail, now we may have to worry about a ricochet or an errant bullet from a lousy shooter. WTF!! |
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windoggi
Joined: 22 Feb 2002 Posts: 2743
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Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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Isabel Wednesday. Four woofs. _________________ /w\ |
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windoggi
Joined: 22 Feb 2002 Posts: 2743
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Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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After a G&T and a puff, reflecting on the day, I really need to add another woof to my earlier post. We are lucky souls. Able to interact with the powers of Nature and play the game we play. Vrooooooom!i _________________ /w\ |
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veterduet
Joined: 29 Jun 2000 Posts: 268
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Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 12:08 pm Post subject: powers of nature |
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I should have shown a little more respect for the powers of nature. After an ok start got beat up a tad due to rigging way oversize. |
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rover
Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Posts: 5
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Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 3:42 pm Post subject: |
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windoggie wrote: | After a G&T and a puff, reflecting on the day, I really need to add another woof to my earlier post. We are lucky souls. Able to interact with the powers of Nature and play the game we play. Vrooooooom!i |
Perhaps after a night of reflection (and a few more G&Ts and/or puffs), a sixth woof would be indicated. Just thinking. |
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bert
Joined: 10 Apr 2000 Posts: 665
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Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 7:13 pm Post subject: Thursday slogfest at 3rd |
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Went out at 1:30 at Third on 8.0/152L with the channel reading under 10 but SFO at 15 mph. Figured that the SFO wind would eventually reach 3rd in a short while..it never did. Slogged back and forth for an hour and half almost to Hayward waiting for the wind. Fortunately, the Bic Techno is a good slog board because its length and volume. Wind finally arrived around 4 pm but by than I had already packed up and gone. |
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beallmd
Joined: 10 May 1998 Posts: 1154
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 10:52 am Post subject: |
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I was down sailing the coast last week. Plenty of wind and would have sailed more there but the waves got freakin huge, up to 15 feet huge. Needless to say I chicken gybed out of there and went to 3rd instead, okay I'm a wimp...
Kiters have an advantage over windsurfers in really big often closeout conditions, they can chicken gybe easier and safer, they can lift up and over huge walls of whitewater and they are not stuck in the wave but can change direction or pull out easily. I learned this by watching, I did not even consider going out. |
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