Photo Link - Pitchpoling Under Golden Gate

I googled "pitchpoling" and stumbled across these photos, which I am sure some of you already viewed. For the rest of you, check it out: http://photos.sfsurvey.com/sail1/imagepages/image1.asp I take it, this guy should have surfed more at an angle like a surfer shooting the curl?

ack! That blows. Bruce Stirling wrote: >I googled "pitchpoling" and stumbled across these photos, which I am >sure some of you already viewed. For the rest of you, check it out: > >http://photos.sfsurvey.com/sail1/imagepages/image1.asp > >I take it, this guy should have surfed more at an angle like a surfer >shooting the curl? > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > >

That is remarkable. I have never seen anything like that. WOW

Yes, it definitely blows. Just one thing I don't understand - what was he doing so close to and heading for the shore? Trying to get to the beach? Sabine S/V "Night and Day" Cal 25 --- Marsh Wise <ma… [at] reenactor.net> wrote: > ack! That blows. > > Bruce Stirling wrote: > > >I googled "pitchpoling" and stumbled across these > photos, which I am > >sure some of you already viewed. For the rest of > you, check it out: > > > >http://photos.sfsurvey.com/sail1/imagepages/image1.asp > > > >I take it, this guy should have surfed more at an > angle like a surfer > >shooting the curl? > > > > > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > Now you can scan emails quickly with a reading pane. Get the new Yahoo! Mail. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

--- In Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com, "Bruce Stirling" <bruce@...> wrote: > > I googled "pitchpoling" and stumbled across these photos, which I am > sure some of you already viewed. For the rest of you, check it out: > > http://photos.sfsurvey.com/sail1/imagepages/image1.asp > > I take it, this guy should have surfed more at an angle like a surfer > shooting the curl? That was last summer and the guy got too close in where there is notorious surf. It's a well known place to stay away from. When we were doing a lot of racing in Newport Beach, CA we used to hug the shore, sailing up the coast toward Long Beach. That keeps you out of the south-flowing current. We would be right in among the surfers waiting to catch a wave. They didn't like it but we didn't really interfere. We did have to stay away from the fishing piers because those jerks would try to cast onto sails to catch them with hooks and rip them. One sailor had his daughter get hooked in the face by one of those creeps. In southern California, when you are beating up the coast to the west (It seems north), you stay as close in as possible. Mike Kennedy Conquest Cal 40 # 96 >

--- In Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com, ". ." <supergirl111980@...> wrote: > > Yes, it definitely blows. > > Just one thing I don't understand - what was he doing > so close to and heading for the shore? Trying to get > to the beach? He was trying to come back into the Bay but was outside of the bridge supports, which you see in the pictures, and too close to shore. Going back into the Bay, you stay in the channel. Others here sail in the Bay and can add more than I know. Mike Kennedy Conquest Cal 40 # 96 > > Sabine > > S/V "Night and Day" Cal 25 >

A pellet rifle. Or better yet, a good, airsoft gun, my K.98 does 515 fps. and plastic pellets... no evidence. :-0 mtkennedy1 wrote: >We did have to stay away from the >fishing piers because those jerks would try to cast onto sails to catch them with hooks and >rip them. One sailor had his daughter get hooked in the face by one of those creeps. > > >

Unfortunately, in Southern California the average pier-dweller is probably armed to the teeth like everybody else on the streets. I don't even flip anybody off any more... Wilkie From: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com [mailto:Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Marsh Wise Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 11:17 AM To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] Re: Photo Link - Pitchpoling Under Golden Gate A pellet rifle. Or better yet, a good, airsoft gun, my K.98 does 515 fps. and plastic pellets... no evidence. :-0 mtkennedy1 wrote: We did have to stay away from the fishing piers because those jerks would try to cast onto sails to catch them with hooks and rip them. One sailor had his daughter get hooked in the face by one of those creeps.

--- In Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com, "mtkennedy1" <mtkennedy1@...> wrote: > > --- In Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com, ". ." <supergirl111980@> wrote: > > > > Yes, it definitely blows. > > > > Just one thing I don't understand - what was he doing > > so close to and heading for the shore? Trying to get > > to the beach? > > He was trying to come back into the Bay but was outside of the bridge supports, which you > see in the pictures, and too close to shore. Going back into the Bay, you stay in the > channel. Others here sail in the Bay and can add more than I know. > > Mike Kennedy > Conquest Cal 40 # 96 > > > > > Sabine > > > > S/V "Night and Day" Cal 25 > > > Fort Point is a very popular surfing spot-as you can see, it gets a nice break at times. Sometimes you can sail inside the South Tower-it's shallower there, and if you're coming in the gate while the tide is ebbing you get good relief in there. But as with anywhere, if you are surrounded by surfers, that means that any minute you're going to be surrounded by surf. Mike Kennedy Jr. Cal 40 Conquest #96