PICYA Championships

July 16 - San Francisco

Results are in from last weekend's PICYA Big Lipton/Larry Knight/Little Lipton/Admiral's Cup. They should be posted on www.picya.org soon. In the meantime, here's a teaser:

In the Big Lipton (PHRF 48-99), Bill Melbostad of San Francisco YC driving the J/120 El Ocaso with 1,2,2 squeezed by Kim Desenberg of Richmond YC on the Beneteau 40.7 Mojo Rising with 2,1,3. In the Larry Knight Class (100-156), the SFYC again emerged victorious, with David Walker's Custom Mull 32 The Shadow winning 2 out of 3 races. Little Lipton (157-206) went to Island YC and Dan Newland's Hawkfarm Redhawk. The Admiral's Cup featured a three-way tie between Michael Mathiasen of IYC sailing the 24-ft Killer Whale Dulcinea and the Tuna 22s Soliton, RYC, Mark Lowry, and perennial winner Summertime Blues, SFYC, Tim McGowan, with 6 points each. Dulcinea won the tiebreaker.

Check out our photos and coverage in the August issue of Latitude 38 too!

Georgia, a Van de Stat 40

Don Wieneke at the helm of the J/105 Orion

YOTREPS

July 16 - 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/

Weather Updates

July 16 - Pacific Ocean

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/. The National Weather Service site for San Francisco Bay is at www.wrh.noaa.gov/Monterey/.

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/Maps/Southwest.shtml.

Pacific Winds and Pressure

The University of Hawaii Dept. of Meteorology page posts a daily map of the NE Pacific Ocean barometric pressure and winds.

Pacific Sea State

Check out the Pacific Ocean sea states at: http://www.mpc.ncep.noaa.gov/RSSA/PacRegSSA.html.
For views of sea states anywhere in the world, see http://www.oceanweather.com/data/.