[Bob Kuczewski]

Is there any rule against running a truck on the beach in front of Torrey Pines Launch?

How long is the beach?

Inland lakes of three quarters to a mile across start to make small white caps at twelve miles per hour of wind speed.

While soaring at Torrey how far out do the waves start to break from just being rollers during soaring conditions?

Landing in rollers is survivable but landing in breakers almost never is.

Sorry I missed your questions Bill.

As far as I know, there are no vehicles allowed on the beach other than the lifeguard trucks. But we could launch from a boat and then tow up to soar the ridge. But it's really crazy that we have to think about this when the cliff is perfectly usable if it weren't for an out of control concessionaire.

The moon drives the tides so find a bottle necked bay and submerge an electrical generator to be turned as the tide went in and out of the bay.

The Bay of Fundy would be an excellent place to test out these ideas!!!

Also, the "Shark River Inlet" in New Jersy would be another candidate. I learned to SCUBA dive there and our instructor took us there for a very interesting dive!! We were crawling along under water hanging onto the bridge structure as the water flowed past us at a tremendous rate. I don't know how much electricity could be generated, but it could probably power the local neighborhood if you could store it between tide changes.