Stampeding Fish, Book 16 of The Windsurfing Bible

Now that I have your attention, let me also add that people have been injured while walking, running, riding, and, amazingly, rigging. Don’t be paranoid about windsurfing—just be smart!

I don’t mean physics smart, philosophy smart, or Phi Beta Kappa smart; I mean common sense smart. There’s a very big difference. Aren’t some of the smartest people you know, also some of the dumbest?

However, people don’t have to be smart to be dumb. They can be, well, you and me—that is, when we aren’t thinking straight: when we’re excited, tired, or cold. When in one these conditions, we place ourselves into a category that’s called Most People.

Most People get in trouble when they contract a case of The Dumbs. This affliction has two symptoms. The first is adrenaline rising to a hazardous high, which causes common sense to drop to a dangerous low. The second is fatigue setting in, which causes physical coordination to set out. Like skiing mishaps, windsurfing incidents usually occur on the first run of the day when adrenaline is high, or on the last run of the day when fatigue is high. Brand that on your brain!

Let’s deal with our windsurfing highs and lows by grouping them in two categories: Stampeding fish on shore and Stampeding fish off shore. Don’t sluff off the shore portion because many windsurfing mishaps occur when people are just milling around. And, a few precautions taken on the land prevent trouble on the water.

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Table of Contents Book 16

Stampeding Fish

Stampeding Fish on Shore

Stampeding Fish off Shore

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Sample Illustrations

Figure 16.1- When your right hand is your front hand, you’re on a starboard tack. When your left hand is your front hand, you’re on a port tack. If two boards are on a collision course, the sailor on a starboard tack (right front hand) has the right-of-way over someone on a port tack (left front hand). The person on a starboard tack should yell "starboard" and the other sailor must steer clear.

Figure 16.2- When two boards sail in the same general direction, the windward board must keep clear of the leeward board. The downwind sailor should yell "leeward" and the other person must turn away.

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