October 29, 2003

Photos of the Day

October 29 – A Glamorous Beach in a Mediterranean
Climate

US Sailing Crowns Men’s and Women’s Champions

October 29 – Mooresville, SC

After four days of racing at Lake Norman
Yacht Club in Mooresville, NC, US Sailing crowned the 2003 U.S.
Men’s and Women’s Champions. Zak Fanberg, Eugene Shmitt and Kippy
Chamberlain representing Bay-Waveland Yacht Club of Mississippi
won the Mallory Cup Men’s Championship. The women’s team of Joni
Palmer, Meredith Dodd, and Carrie Carpenter representing Deep
Creek Yacht Club in Maryland received the Adams Trophy for U.S.
Women’s Champions. The Men’s Championship was sailed in Highlanders,
the Women’s in Flying Scots. Rolex Watch U.S.A. sponsored both
events.

Fanberg, Shmitt, and Chamberlain won the
event 22 points ahead of the second place team of Keith Taboada,
Russ Schon and Stu Challoner of New Jersey. The winning team
also received the Staton J. Peele Jr. Sportsmanship Trophy, as
did Tom Lawton, Mark Aspland, and Sean Murphy of Lake Norman
Yacht Club, NC. The Royal Victoria Yacht Club Trophy for demonstrating
superior seamanship while underway and at mooring was awarded
to Mark Itnyre, Dave Bolyard, and Ian Trotter of Seal Beach and
Southwestern Yacht Clubs in SoCal. Our own Area G was represented
by Vaughn Seifers, Nick Nash and Jim Wheeler of Richmond YC,
who finished tenth out of 12 teams.

The women’s team of Palmer, Dodd, and Carpenter
took the lead after the fifth race and by the end of the second
day of racing, they were leading by one point.
After the final day of racing, Palmer and her crew won by a total
of two points, defeating the second-place team of Kirsten Cummings,
Moni Lampe and Stacey Szabo who represented Mission Bay Yacht
Club in San Diego. Our Area G team consisted of Elissa Hall of
Richmond and Amy Arden and Janice Young of Butte Sailing Club,
who finished tenth out of 11 teams, partly due to a DNF in the
second race.

For photos and more, see www.ussailing.org/mallory, www.ussailing.org/adams and www.ussailing.org/pressreleases/2003/AdamsMalloryPost.htm.

YOTREPS

October 29 – The Pacific Ocean and Cyberspace

Who is out making passages in the Pacific
and what kind of weather are they having? The YOTREPS daily yacht
tracking page has moved to www.bitwrangler.com/psn.

Weather Updates

October 29 – Pacific
Ocean

San Francisco Bay Weather

Check out this guide to San Francisco Bay
Navigational Aids: http://sfports.wr.usgs.gov/sfports.html.

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

The site for the Pacific Ocean sea states
has moved to http://www.mpc.ncep.noaa.gov/shtml/PacRegSSA.shtml.

For views of sea states anywhere in the world,
see http://www.oceanweather.com/data.