A fun day of storm sailing at Half Moon Bay captured by Sergey or videojibe.com. A bunch of us had been hoping that the forecasted strong winds would come to fruition at a reasonable time of day and without a lot of rain. We got our wish. A nice breeze with no rain for the most part was our reward. I started out on 4.7 and 81l, and that lasted for about 10 minutes before I decided to come in and rig down to 4.2. A nice day at HMB!
I can't tell you how many times I've watched this video, but it's a classic, and it never seems to get old. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.
Kudos to Frontier Productions for posting the this video and enabling download. Too bad they didn't post the entire video. I already did a VHS rip of this years ago and have had it on my iPhone for the last two years. My favorite parts are probably Tubamancha (which is left out on Vimeo) and watching Ian Boyd and Kenny Hartz rip it up. The Tuba section is posted on YouTube if you're interested.
A nice, unexpected windy day on the Bay. Luckily, Mo Gunn was on hand to take pictures, and Sergey from videojibe.com was there for the video work. Sergey sailed around w/ his DIY helmet cam, and he also mounted his innovative DIY mast-mounted double cam.
October usually isn't a good month for wind here in SF Bay, but 2009 has been an exception. There have been lots of good sailing days this month with storms, fronts, thermals, clearing winds. Some nice mellow days and some really windy ones as well. Good thing with the rainfall is that the grass has started to grow again at the Candlestick launch... a reminder of spring time and a nice alternative to the rocks and dirt we've grown accustomed to in the summer. Fall usually means lighter winds focused on Candlestick, Haskins, and Oyster Point. For those of you who haven't been to Haskins, there's a new biomedical building that's vacant. For us that means more parking and the nicest grass I've ever rigged on... just make sure you de-rig before they turn the sprinklers on!
Someone made a little art project out of a tree overlooking the sailing area at Da Stick. It's pretty cool!
There's also a water contamination warning sign near the launch. Not really the thing you want to see before you get in or after you get out of the water. The good thing is that it lists a hotline and website for checking water quality for SF beaches. This is must have info for those of us that storm sail in the winter. Unfortunately, it's also useful when some damn ship is leaking oil into the Bay! I've bookmarked these ones:
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