3rd Ave - Infrastructure Improvements

rwilde · Joined: 22 Feb 2001 Posts: 51

Coach you missed two key points fake turf adds about 10 degrees in the Summer and when people rig there standard masts and hold the rig up it will chew up the turf. Oh and they cut down on the available parking spots big time.

coachg · Joined: 10 Sep 2000 Posts: 3553

rwilde,

I hate to tell you this but you are way off. The temperature does not increase by 10 degrees my friend, much more. Before the start of the Holy Bowl back in early September on a day when the air temperature reached 103 degrees Chris, the AD for Jesuit, put a thermometer on the field & took the temperature. 122 degrees.

Coachg

mogunn · Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 1307 Location: SF Bay

Rich, the number of parking spaces is nearly the same as before.
We gained 2 spaces nearest to the rigging area when they eliminated 2 handicap spots. We lost 3 spaces nearest to the lower launch to accommodate emergency access to the path. That's a net loss of 1.
No parking on the Lakeside Dr. side of the bathroom, but it was a no parking zone before the refurb -- people chose to ignore it and it was a hazard on busy days. Parking on Lakeside along the driving range is unchanged.

I personally think the improvements are great compared to what was there before. YMMV.

SwellRipper · Joined: 21 Apr 2009 Posts: 193 Location: Channel Marker 11

Nice one Mo, old 3rd Ave carpets visible from space!

Here is a historic on the ground look featuring Dmitry, which is now destined to be a 3rd Ave Carpet Classic feature, haha!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM4Tz_hogqU&index=34&list=UU_tTeC-oRYYwOEH2sqplOuQ

BTW, 3rd was way powered up after the rain today, not too many takers, but it was great sailing.

Xmas Day may work too, just look out for the bigger pieces of trees floating out there!

rwilde · Joined: 22 Feb 2001 Posts: 51

Coach thanks for proving my point. As a soccer coach the average increase on Bay Area fields is appr.10 degrees on the fake stuff. What the hell is the Holy Bowl and what does it have to to with 3rd.

carl · Joined: 25 Feb 1997 Posts: 2674 Location: SF bay area

Goodwind · Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 323 Location: On water

Exactly! You're not talking about Rio, 3rd and Coyote cannot be that hot on windy days. There have not been heat issues with the black recycled rubber mats installed at the Coyote playground, right? However, I do foreseen competitions from non-winsurfers. With the dirty old carpets, nobody is gonna go there other than rigging. With the new turf, family picnics, sunning bikini babes and soccer games are not out of the picture. Surprised

damel · Joined: 15 Jul 2007 Posts: 247

The new renovations look great. I didn't make it to 3rd much last season because I now live and work in SF but am hoping to get some of that epic swell this summer.

I will miss the rough home grown feel of the old parking lot. There is something about rigging on a piece of carpet that may have been in your fellow windsurfers home the year before.

Also, looks like they took away a lot of the bushes, I wonder where the cats are living now.