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dvCali



Joined: 23 Aug 2007
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 10, 2021 8:39 pm    Post subject: Ops! Finally got rescued! Reply with quote

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
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Location: Santa Cruz Ca

PostPosted: Tue Aug 10, 2021 8:58 pm    Post subject: glad you are safe. Reply with quote

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
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Location: East Bay

PostPosted: Tue Aug 10, 2021 9:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 10, 2021 9:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

oh...I got the 32, on your recommendation....but it spins out mercilessly.
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dvCali



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 10, 2021 9:58 pm    Post subject: Re: glad you are safe. Reply with quote

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



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 10, 2021 10:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 10, 2021 10:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 11, 2021 9:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 11, 2021 10:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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
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Location: Killer Sturgeon Cove

PostPosted: Wed Aug 11, 2021 11:00 am    Post subject: Re: Ops! Finally got rescued! Reply with quote

I've sheared off a G10 fin in exactly the same way, so probably no safer.
Maybe carbon?

-Craig

dvCali wrote:


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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