February 26, 2001

By Grzegorz | February 26, 2001

Cat Bash

February 26 – Pacific Ocean

Always wanted to know what a catamaran
would be like doing the Baja Bash? This may be your chance. Capt.
Bruce Ladd will be leaving Puerto Vallarta on March 28 to deliver
Profligate, Latitude’s 63-foot catamaran, to San
Diego, and is open to the prospect of taking a couple of more
hands. This is a ‘food and fun’ situation as opposed to a paid
position. It’s also a delivery, so most or all of it will likely
be motoring. Nonetheless, Profligate is a great platform,
and it’s almost always great to be on the ocean. If interested,
email your resume to Capt.
Bruce – who has done a number of deliveries on Profligate.
Naturally, it’s expected that you’re in excellent health and
have some sailing experience.

Scenes from last year’s delivery:

Ken and Susan catch a tuna

Ken and Carmel making sushi out of the tuna
Photos Courtesy Profligate

Puerto
Vallarta Race Update

February 26 – Puerto Vallarta

The final results were not up on the PV Race page as of this morning,
but check in with them this afternoon for the latest at www.dryc.org.
We’ll have a full report in the April
Latitude, but here’s a taste: In PHRF-AA (the really big boats),
Pendragon 4 finished first, followed by Pegasus
and Grand Illusion. In PHRF-A, the sleds, Etranger took
line honors, followed by M Project and the SC 52 Rosebud
out of Santa Cruz. Bay Wolf finished first in PHRF-B, followed
by Octavia, then Roller Coaster.

The Race Update

February 26 – Atlantic and Southern Oceans

The ETA for Club Med to finish in Marseilles has been
pushed back to March 3 or 4.

No longer anticipated to finish within
60 days, the leading maxi-cat in the round-the-world race has
been once again halted by light winds. On track to finish in
Marseilles this weekend, Club Med is still awaiting the
forecasted winds which will
speed the international crew on their way to Marseilles.

The South Pacific is serving up 25-30 ft
waves, 7°C temperatures and 50-60 knot winds for Warta-Polpharma
and Team Adventure. All they can do is batten down the
hatches and weather the storm in the kind of classic Southern
Ocean conditions that the two front-runners did not encounter.

A large area of low pressure to the south
with low winds at the center is positioned off Cape Horn and
moving slowly about 15 knots. This
means that the boats will have to take a slight detour to the
northwest before turning south again towards Cape Horn. “They
are currently sailing in a 50-knot airflow which will decrease
to 40 knots by the time they round the Horn,” explained
Gilles Chiorri of Metéo Consult. You can imagine the conditions,
especially because the sea-state, already heavy, will be even
worse in the shallower waters of Drake Passage.

Blue Club Med
Green Innovation Explorer
Orange Team Adventure
Yellow Warta Polpharma
Magenta Team Legato

Graphics Courtesy Club Med
www.catamaran.clubmed.fr/

Positions of February 26, 15:00:00 GMT:

1. Club Med / 21º41.56’N –
28º45.56’W / dtf 2,187.8 miles
2. Innovation Explorer / 10º51.20’N – 34º12.96’W
/ dtl 682.0 miles
3. Team Adventure / 53º59.24’S – 96º32.52’W
/ dtl 5,897.0 miles
4. Warta Polpharma / 53º17.40’S – 104º50.00’W
/ dtl 6,187.3 miles
5. Team Legato / 47º14.28’S – 159º46.20’W /
dtl 8,114.6 miles

YOTREPS

February 26 – 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 www.bitwrangler.com/yotreps/

Weather Updates

February 26 – 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/.

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 Sea State

Seas are normal in the Pacific. But you
might check out the Pacific Ocean sea states at: http://www.mpc.ncep.noaa.gov/RSSA/PacRegSSA.html.

For another view, see http://www.oceanweather.com/data/global.html.

Note: We will not have a
new edition of ‘Lectronic Latitude tomorrow, Friday.

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