[Public-list] Wrong boat for the conditions

[George Dinwiddie]

There was a reply on the Atomic 4 list (where I found this link) that said:

> I work on the San Francisco Bay for a living and I was out there when
> this happened. There were sustained winds of 25 knots from the WNW
> and there was a 2.7 knot ebb tide. This person made a terrible
> judgment by attempting to go south of the south tower of the Golden
> Gate Bridge. There were two races that day outside of the bridge and
> everyone else went under the middle of the bridge where it was
> nothing like this. This decision to go south of the south tower put
> rescuers, surfers, helo pilots and himself in grave danger!

Pete Howell wrote:
> I used to sail there as a kid and the conditions looked pretty normal.  
> they must have been having problems because no one would choose to be 
> that close to shore at that point.

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