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dvCali
Joined: 23 Aug 2007 Posts: 1314
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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2021 8:39 pm Post subject: Ops! Finally got rescued! |
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After 35 years of sailing the Bay Area I finally got rescued! I am out with my RRD FSW 90 in its slolomish trim (that is overpowered ACX 6.0 and K4 Fang 30 cm) when the the fin simply sheers off ... did not hit anything, it just broke neat at the base.
I am quite outside at the Stick, and even if I can actually sort of make it toward shore the 6.0 is big, the wind is strong, and I am getting tired quick. Off come the VHF radio, and the San Francisco police comes with their board in about 10 minutes! Very nice guys, they take me back to shore and the story ends with just a bit of a beat up sail.
Moral of the story: not so sure any longer about a plastic fin for free-race/ride overpowered conditions! Time to get a tectonics Falcon ...
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ctuna
Joined: 27 Jun 1995 Posts: 1126 Location: Santa Cruz Ca
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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2021 8:58 pm Post subject: glad you are safe. |
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glad you are safe.
Police came with there board?
Don't they have some kind of powered craft?
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dllee
Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 5329 Location: East Bay
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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2021 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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Would have been nice to have side bites.
I can slog across the wind fin-less, but downwind is impossible.
Op'd very hard, but it's a matter of sheeting out, feet spread, not planing, and windward rail down.
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dllee
Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 5329 Location: East Bay
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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2021 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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oh...I got the 32, on your recommendation....but it spins out mercilessly.
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dvCali
Joined: 23 Aug 2007 Posts: 1314
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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2021 9:58 pm Post subject: Re: glad you are safe. |
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ctuna wrote: | glad you are safe.
Police came with there board?
Don't they have some kind of powered craft? |
Yes, they have a big rescue boat. Very nice guys ... I am glad we pay taxes!!!!
Lee, yes I did exactly that with the board, wide stance, board tilted, but with the 6.0 in 4.7 conditions it was quite an effort and I was out quite east and loosing ground fast ... if I did not have the radio I would probably had made it to shore but better safe than sorry!
I actually liked the K4 Fang 30 a lot, and never really had any spin out problem ... but I am not going to buy a second one!!!!
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dllee
Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 5329 Location: East Bay
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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2021 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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The 32 is pristine, 7 days used, maybe 100 spinouts by 2 different users, both old school. No backfoot pressure would help solve the problem.
IS dragfree, slippery, and very fast.
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Goodwind
Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 323 Location: On water
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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2021 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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First time I saw disabled sailor being dropped off at stick's Windsurfer Cycle because S.F. Police was deployed. Coast Guard would take you to Oyster Point instead.
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combs
Joined: 01 Apr 1997 Posts: 130
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Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2021 9:35 am Post subject: |
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I have been able to self rescue after losing a fin by attaching my harness to the end of the board, with the hook down to replace the fin. Pretty easy to slog a board this way.
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dvCali
Joined: 23 Aug 2007 Posts: 1314
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Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2021 10:48 am Post subject: |
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combs wrote: | I have been able to self rescue after losing a fin by attaching my harness to the end of the board, with the hook down to replace the fin. Pretty easy to slog a board this way. |
Thank you for the mansplaining, not so easy when grossly overpowerd in off shore winds and having to go upwind.
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cgoudie1
Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 2599 Location: Killer Sturgeon Cove
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Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2021 11:00 am Post subject: Re: Ops! Finally got rescued! |
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I've sheared off a G10 fin in exactly the same way, so probably no safer.
Maybe carbon?
-Craig
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Moral of the story: not so sure any longer about a plastic fin for free-race/ride overpowered conditions! Time to get a tectonics Falcon ... |
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