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Up until yesterday we've been getting pretty good, consistent wind.  It's
been blowing everywhere, Rio Vista, Coyote Point, San Luis Reservoir.
Most people started a couple weeks ago, I got out for the first time
this past weekend.

On Sunday I got to Coyote at about 1:30PM.  There weren't many people
there yet, as it was only blowing about 10kts.  About a two miles out in
the Bay were a couple of *big* monofilm sails.  We couldn't see any
numbers or who it was, but we guessed one was Ted Huang (US-101) as his
Jeep Cherokee was in the parking lot but he was not.  The two sailors
were beating upwind and were making incredible headway.  They were out
of sight in minutes, the fastest I've ever seen anyone go upwind.

By 2:30PM it picked up to about 20kts and we started rigging our 5.3's.  About
that time the two monofilm sails started back for the beach.  When they
got close enough we all saw why they were so fast upwind.  It was Ted, and
a girl (US-200) about his age that I didn't recognize, and they were both
sailing Lechner Division II boards.  They both had huge sails, something like
7.5.  As Ted came in everyone started yelling at him to do something studly,
so he did a jump jibe.  It looked like a whale jumping out of the water.
It was a great day, it blew until past 6PM, which was plenty of time to
exhause me.  I actually made most of my jibes which really suprised me,
I had expected to be more rusty.

-Jonathan

I also took a day off to sail Santa Cruz and also got skunked. So for
this season, I've made three fruitless trips and had one good day at
Natural Bridges,..........I hope things get better.....

Jim Munro

Thanks for the advice.
thanh

Jamie

-Jonathan

-Jonathan
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Look for the giant pumkin (big orange van) in the Bay area, mostly
Coyote.

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We stopped windsurfing when we moved to Central Oregon, but
plan to take it up again this summer.  When we occasionally
fly down to visit friends in the Bay Area I like to look down
at Coyote Point and all the windsurfers when the plane comes
in for a landing.

Judy
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-Jonathan

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|> >On Friday I went to Coyote to buy a season's pass [...]
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|> Say what?  A season's pass for parking; for getting on the water?

Yeah, well, Coyote Point is a big County Park.  There is a huge playground
for kids, a museum, a restaraunt, a marina, golf course, shooting range,
picnic area and a whole lot of other amenities I've probably left out.

The windsurfing area is pretty much isolated to one end of the park.
The beach faces the North (more or less) and the wind blows from the
Northwest, giving you a nice reach out into the bay.  The windsurfing
end of the park has a big parking lot for hundreds (?) of cars.  There
are several gravel rigging areas which area nice, although they could
be larger.  The beach area is quite long.  On the right (downwind) end of
the beach area is a roped-off swimming area (boards prohibited!)  If you
get blown past the swimming area, you'll wind up at the Marina, or washed
up on the rocky point :-(  All beginners pay there dues here at least once.

There is also a beach house with showers that are sometimes even warm :-)  

Entry price for the park is $3.00, or 60 bucks for a season pass.  Is it
worth it?  I think so.  It's kind of a civilized friendly place with
a great launching area.  If you stay out on the water, the crowd won't
bother you a bit -- what with a 14 mile reach and the entire bay in which
to play!