Where We Sailed Today

nw30 · Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2016 3:27 pm Post subject:

More classics 1982'ish, Aussie style ~

koogzah · Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 530 Location: right here

nw30, those are fantastic pics! Love the inverted outlines on the two boards on the far right of the first picture. Slightly different ideas about which direction to aim "the pointy end". Very Happy

Side note: While I can't claim to be in the same league as Nine-Toed Ted or Stinky Pete, I did actually teach myself to sail on Jeanneau Wind.

dllee · Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 5329 Location: East Bay

OK, I admit, I'm retarded.
Went out a week before on a Rocket 99, 6.1 sail, Lake Merced, NW winds from 2-27 mph. Uphauling was easy, sheeting in was easy, finding the right wind to support my weight was impossible. Once I adjusted to lighter winds, a gust of 25+ would blow thru, launching me and sail. Once I adjusted to stronger gusts, every time I sheeted in, I fell backwards, hence the lesson the following week.
Dufours were all they had. Had to hump them down from the clubhouse, easy 200' hump down a trail. 8 to a lesson, I was first volunteer and sailed away without a problem, tacked, sailed back, and jibed. Easy. The breeze was 3-7 mph, anyone can do that.
Joanie had to teach the other 7 retards. Two of the girls refused to try to uphaul after the first failure. She enlisted me to help with the 3 guys, and I got them up and sailing for a few feet before they'd inexplicably just drop the sail and fall backwards into the water.
I was sailing 360's, upwind and downwind, not falling off.
I dated Joan for the next 3 months, showing her how to waterstart and jibe a shortboard within a week of my "lesson".
She had taught at Club Med, Puerto Vallarta, for a year and a half before coming up to the Bay area for school. No wind there, no shortboards, no waterstarts.
Monday after the weekend lesson, I drove to Emeryville and bought a Marker111 and 6.1 sail. Sailed Ocean Beach at Sloat, riding at least 10 waves before getting stuck at the old Sloat Pier.
Wed. sold it to Steve Yong, and grabbed my roomates 9' surfboard, added mast track and footstraps at 9" and 29" off the tail, and sailed across Crissy Fields 7 times and back before falling on an inside jibe, very light wind there, and sailing for another hour after that falling in maybe twice total.
That was less than two weeks after my initial unsuccessful attempt at windsurfing at Lake Merced.
If you have any doubts, plenty of guys still around to verify.

summertime · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 89

Love those old stories! You all had real pioneer blood. Sounds like a lot of fun being the first to check out new places. And gear. That's incredible you went out at Ocean Beach and Chrissy - and across the Bay within your first 2 weeks of windsurfing zirtab. And it's amazing great whites have been seen all the way at the east side of Tiburon!

bert · Joined: 10 Apr 2000 Posts: 665

Mellow 2 hr session at Palo Alto on 5.5/90L trifin. Wind was about 15 but was a bit stronger at the Newark shore. Sailed alone for an hour until 3 when a couple of freestylers showed up.

windsrf · Joined: 01 May 1998 Posts: 464

Berkeley was good, at least for 6+ sailing. Went out at 2:20 on 6.3 for 70 min - every run powered (one to two woofs on Wind Doggies' scale?). Not crowded, I expect due to many still not being comfortable with the new sensor readings. Anything above 17 at HLS is OK, vs. 20 in the Old Days. Reverse true for Pt. Isabel, which didn't reach its new requisite 20 mark today. So come on down!

dllee · Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 5329 Location: East Bay

Yeah, well powered 5.6 Bash and 75 liter RoqueWave, 155 lbs. but wore a short sleeve wetsuit to stay light enough to negotiate the dead inside at the 3rd dock.

loopless · Joined: 30 Jun 1997 Posts: 426

Meanwhile, in Baja....

nw30 · Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2016 1:04 am Post subject:

Huh, kinda looked like Arroyo today during a set, a south swell with wind that went from 5.2 to 4.7 twice today, but nice and warm.