November 28, 2000
Photos of the DayEPIRB Owner IdentifiedNovember 28 – Oahu Yesterday we asked who owns the EPIRB in the accompanying  Steve Shepard of the Islander 34 ‘Little Wing’ was the first |
Why here’s a photo of Livingston now, which was taken shortly |
Weather Updates
November 28 – Pacific and Atlantic Oceans
Tropical Weather
The Atlantic/Caribbean region hurricane season is almost over,
and it looks as though there will not be any more tropical storms
or hurricanes.
San Francisco Bay Weather
To see what the winds are like on the Bay and just outside
the Gate right now, check out http://sfports.wr.usgs.gov/wind/.
California Coast Weather
Looking for current as well as recent wind and sea readings
from 17 buoys and stations between Pt. Arena and the Mexican border?
Here’s the place – which has further links to weather buoys and
stations all over the U.S.: www.ndbc.noaa.gov/stuff/southwest/swstmap.shtml.
Pacific Ocean Weather
You can view the University of Hawaii Department of Meteorology
satellite picture by clicking
here.
Pacific Sea State
Seas are normal in the Pacific. But you might check at: http://www.mpc.ncep.noaa.gov/RSSA/PacRegSSA.html.
For another view, see http://www.oceanweather.com/data/global.html.
Cruising
ARC Update
November 28 – Atlantic Ocean
| While we’re waiting for the latest update from the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers – the 215 boat fleet rallying 2,700 miles from Las Palmas in the lovely Canary Islands to St. Lucia in the lovely Caribbean – we thought we’d give you a rundown of the American entries in the fleet: ‘Beltraned’, Steven Hannon’s Hallberg-Rassy 39; ‘Chippewa’, Clay By our count, that’s 18 boats. We’re unsure, however, if all |
 The start of the 2,700 mile rally  Little pirates and Arabian dancers posed in front of the Save the Children banner at the Fancy Dress Party, which raised Ptas. 87,000 (we’re not sure what that comes to in dollars!) |
That Old ‘Moonduster’ Crew
November 28 – Alameda
| What’s happening with that old ‘Moonduster’ crew? Two years ago, Wayne Meretsky took his S&S 43 Moonduster in the Ha-Ha. His three-man crew consisted of Harbormaster Alan Weaver, Pacific Seacraft dealer Adam Sadeg, and then UK sailmaker Chris Maher. According to the latest dock talk, they’ll all be doing the next Ha-Ha – but most of them on their own boats. Meretsky, who did the Ha-Ha this year with us aboard ‘Profligate’, |
 The Lovely Moonduster |
Everything Else Was Great
November 28 – New Zealand
Tom and Bonnie of the Incline Village-based Amel Mango ‘Toujours’
are now in Gulf Harbor, New Zealand. To summarize their Changes
that will appear in the next Latitude
38, both Raiatea Carenage and Raiatea Marina were packed with
hauled boats for the last cyclone season. “The two yards
are next to each other and both are professionally run. None of
the more than 30 boats that were hauled last year had any kind
of problem,” the couple report. “Unfortunately, the
same couldn’t be said for the weather during the southern part
of the run from French Polynesia to New Zealand. “The weather
was awful.” Everything else was great, however, but not as
great as New Zealand, which the couple say words aren’t capable
of describing.
If you’re reading this, Tom and Bonnie, your hotmail email address
is not working for us.
YOTREPS
November 28 – The Pacific Ocean and Cyberspace
Who is out making passages in the Pacific and what kind of
weather are they having? Check out YOTREPS – ‘yacht reports’ –
at http://www.bitwrangler.com/yotreps/
Racing
America’s Cup
November 28 – New York
The odd couple of the America’s Cup, Dennis Conner and the
New York YC, have managed to find at least a partial sugar daddy
for the next America’s Cup. He’s Charles Wang, chairman of Computer
Associates, who already owns a hockey team, an arena football
team and has the Computer Associates logo on a top Formula One
race car. It’s expected that a competitive America’s Cup effort
will require $30 to $100 million, but there’s no word as to how
much Wang is putting in.
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