Not surfing. I repeat: not surfing. But that didn’t stop this unfortunate skipper from testing the cutback capabilities of his little sloop in the white water under San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. The result is an unbelievable sequence of pictures, snapped by a guy named Wayne Lambright (who normally writes restaurant reviews). Here’s Lambright’s brief description of the action: “I was at Fort Point today, finishing up an eleven part photo essay on the surfers of San Francisco, and then I saw this sailboat, I said to the crowd, “LOOK, this sailboat is going to surf the waves!” Then it capsized, The surfers came to the rescue, and saved the two sailors.” I’ve posted a few of Lambright’s key photos below, but if you have the time (and the stomach), check out Wayne’s whopping 113 image slide show, which documents both the disaster and the rescue (thanks to reader Scott Dreier for making sure I didn’t miss this in my post-Caribbean rum punch haze)…
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