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Thanks for all the helpful and supportive responses. Just to address some of the questions raised:

My base is the single-pin connection to the mast track. I think these bases are safe and don't sli ...

[i][quote="windward1"] When you tried to put it together, did you try if while being fully in the water and trying to stab the pin into the slot opening at the wide part?

Yes, cradling t ...

I was the first one out Saturday, around 1 pm. Looked windy, but I was way underpowered on a 5.0, so I headed back to the beach. With the ebb (which I was fully aware of before launching), I'd drifted ...

Thanks a lot, that's great info though not what I was hoping to hear. Well, if we buy a place there you'll all be welcome to launch your SUP's, wake boards, or whatever.

Anybody ever sail there? Does it ever get shortboardable? Thinking about buying a place there.

Surfing the swells downwind at Crissy in an ebb is a real thrill. Like the other poster said, you keep overtaking the swells from behind, and it looks like you're gonna stick the nose and launch, but ...

Definitely getting worse. I don't remember any weeds at all there until a few years ago. Last week I sailed PI for the first time in a year, and it was really annoying, dodging the obvious ones but st ...

My last two times at Larkspur I saw windsurfers taking the time to help kiters who had become separated from their boards. I guess a lot of kiters dont use leashes because of the danger of getting dec ...

The E-Rock was my first shortboard. I sailed it and loved it for about 10 years, then one day walked into Boardsports (where Id originally bought it) and asked what do you recommend for a guy who stil ...

Back in the 80s, longboarding was the easy, accessible gateway drug that got people hooked. Some people went on to the thrills of shortboards, others were perfectly happy cruising their local lake. Tr ...