There is a 'must see' slide show posted on the SF Survey website of a
Santana 22 riding a huge wave under Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco -
right up onto the beach. Happily, surfers came to the rescue, and saved the
two sailors. Do yourself a favor and invest five minutes in this remarkable
113-image, photo essay by Wayne Lambright.
http://sfsurvey.com/photos/sail/imagepages/image1.htm
amazing
its amazing how the hull remained remarkably in tact.the keel on that boat must have at least 12-1300 pounds of lead,and it stayed in one piece.(thats one peice here,one peice there....)did the person behind the tiller know what he was in for?
Last edited by eric (deceased); 04-04-2005 at 12:11 AM.
Wow.
Breaking waves very bad. Things started going south at this point.
OK sailors!
Maybe lost his steering or something...
But is there ANYTHING they could have done?
Well, other than being somewhere else....
Could have buttoned up the companionway. Wouldn't have sunk
Deploy a sea drogue until they're through the breakers?
Why are they going through breakers anyway? Is that what it's like going under the GG bridge or did they just decide to go on the edge of the channel for some reason??
Last edited by mbd; 04-04-2005 at 07:45 AM.
1 minute before the roll, he was thinking things were gonna be fine.
I admit I have never sailed under the Gate, but I have spent a lot of time up above it on the headlands, looking down and dreaming of sailing.
Not, however, dreaming of that particualr day's sail.
I bet he was trying to get out of the current, and just choose to come in too close. A decision that was not as apparent from the cockpit as it was from the shore until much later.
Glad he had the surfers close by to help push the stern under......
Last edited by c_amos; 04-04-2005 at 07:58 AM. Reason: Edit to add picture of helpful surfers
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