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Photos of the DayDecember 12 - Mexico ![]() |
![]() ![]() Photos Courtesy Guy & Deborah Bunting Check out the squid that Guy pulled up from the Sea. That's a summer's worth of calamari right there. We also enjoyed the couples' shot of the cow being loaded onto a boat at Santa Rosalia. Apparently, the line around the cow's neck asphyxiates it enough to keep it from causing trouble during the loading process, but not enough to kill it. Only in Mexico! The final shot is of Elan on the hard for a bottom job. For more great stuff, check out their site at: home.talkcity.com/PassportPl/elan2001/ |
Dalton More Busted Up Than ThoughtDecember 12 - Auckland Grant Dalton is probably wondering the same thing. After the last leg of the Volvo, he checked into a Sydney Hospital, assuming that he'd broken two ribs during a fall suffered on the last day of that leg. Doctors confirmed this, but found nothing more. When he got to Auckland, he went for a second opinion, and doctors discovered he also had fractured three vertebrae in his spine. Ouch! Will he sail the next leg from Sydney to Auckland, which starts the day after Christmas? He sure wants to, in part because he's won that leg the last two times, and would like to do it again in honor of Sir Peter Blake, his friend and around-the-world ace who was recently murdered in Brazil. And nobody doubts that Dalton is one tough cookie. The veteran of six Whitbreads did a leg-and-a-half of the last one with a broken collarbone. Nonetheless, he admits there is a slim chance he may be sidelined. He's got a backup skipper lined up - Paul Cayard? - but won't say who. |
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YOTREPSDecember 12 - 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 UpdatesDecember 12 - Pacific Ocean San Francisco Bay WeatherTo 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 WeatherLooking 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 Winds and PressureThe University of Hawaii Dept. of Meteorology page posts a daily map of the NE Pacific Ocean barometric pressure and winds. Pacific Sea StateCheck out the Pacific Ocean sea states
at: http://www.mpc.ncep.noaa.gov/RSSA/PacRegSSA.html.
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