Sailor Having An Incredibly Bad Day on SF Bay

Tombstone · Post by **Tombstone** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:21 am

Yachtsea - Your roll!

This is in the San Francisco Bay under the Golden Gate Bridge. A super treacherous place to be especially if you don't know what you are doing. This guy was clueless. (Too close to the south side, heading downwind into breaking surf, no knowledge of the shallow depth there, etc.)

http://sfsurvey.com/photos/sail/imagepages/image1.htm

Bothwell · Post by **Bothwell** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:30 am

Was he one of the guys in the surf? did he get out OK

Tombstone · Post by **Tombstone** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:35 am

Bothwell wrote: Was he one of the guys in the surf? did he get out OK
Yes, check out the later photos. Coast Guard to the rescue!

Hawke · Post by **Hawke** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:47 am

...and a very expensive sailboat is now a very expensive home for fish

telaquapacky · Post by **telaquapacky** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 1:01 pm

I worked at the presidio while I was in school at Berkeley. I asked one of my patients who was in the Coast Guard how often people jump off the GG bridge. She said she don't know but they drag out of the water or recover from the beach on average two dead bodies every three weeks. (This info is 17 years old)