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Photos of the DaySeptember 10 - Fécamp, France Ooops. Today's Photo of the Day is of Loïck Peyron's dismasted 60-ft trimaran Fujifilm, which lost her innovative 'twisting rig' during the first day of the Offshore Racing Multihull Association's Grand Prix de Fécamp two weeks ago. Loïck, brother of Bruno, who founded The Race, has been one of the most successful skippers on the 60-ft tri circuit, which is huge in Europe. ![]() Photo Gilles Martin-Raget/Royale Production Oops again. Vendée vet Giovanni Soldini, who has now joined the 60-ft tri circuit, lost the rig yesterday on his new 60-ft tri Fila, while on the way to the Grand Prix in Belgium. The dismastings come at a bad time for both skippers, as the start of the Transat Jacques Vabre starts on November 4. While it gets little play in America, the doublehanded Jacques Vabre Atlantic Race, for 60-ft tris and Open 60 monohulls, is gigantic over in Europe. There will be no less than 11 state-of-the-art 60-ft tris that will sail the 5,300 mile race, which will take them from Le Havre, France, around Ascension Island, to the finish at Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. The slower monohulls will sail a 4,340-mile course direct from Le Havre to Brazil. The monohulls, which are expected to average 10 knots, will start on November 3; the trimarans, which are expected to average 14 knots, will start the next day. This will be the fifth running of the event, which is supposed to commemorate the clipper ship sailor who brought South American coffee beans back to Europe. In previous incarnations, it finished in Cartagena, Colombia. Who is Jacques Vabre? Actually it's an 'it', as in a brand of coffee sold in France - and owned by Kraft Foods of the United States. |
International Knarr Championship (IKCs)September 10 - San Francisco Bay |
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Big Boat Series (BBS)September 10 - San Francisco |
Ha-Ha Entry Deadline TodaySeptember 10 - Baja Ha-Ha World Headquarters "The official deadline for paid-up entries for the October 30 Baja Ha-Ha Cruisers' Rally from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas is today," say the folks at the Ha-Ha, "but since some people have just sent in their requests for packets, the deadline will be extended until Friday. After that, the entry fee is doubled. Thanks to a flurry of entries over the weekend, the fleet has now passed the 110-boat mark. The most notable change this year is the number of big boats, as 24 of them are over 52-ft." See www.baja-haha.com for more information. Some of the more recent entries include: 81) Claudacious / Litton 42 Trawler
/ Jay Burton & Harriet Harrell / Tucson, AZ |
The Most Important Date in the History of the Berkeley WaterfrontSeptember 10 - Berkeley "The meeting is Monday, September 24, at 7:00 pm at Hs. Lordships Restaurant, Berkeley Marina, in the upstairs banquet room. This room holds 600 people, and the workshop organizers hope to fill it up. Previous 'workshops' have really just been presentation and comment sessions. This time, the plan is to break the participants into groups of probably about 10 people per group, and go through a three-step process using large-scale maps. Participants will be asked to: 1) Estimate the 'carrying capacity' of each section of the park. 2) Determine appropriate uses consistent with carrying capacity. 3) Propose improvements and facilities to support those uses. "If State Parks (the owner) and East Bay Regional (the operator) do the right thing, this park could provide some amazing opportunities for entry-level rowing, kayaking, small boat sailing, windsurfing, and possibly even a permanent dragon boat facility or an outrigger club. We could have on-site storage for kayaks and sailboards at the best launch sites. We could have youth programs offering dragon boat practice every day after school. We could have rental rowboats for the one-time visitor. We could have sensible parking lots near the launch sites where they're needed, with bathrooms and showers. "At issue here is the role we see for water-borne recreation in an urban setting: Is it something we should have at our doorstep? Or is it something we should have to drive a great distance to find, in a vehicle large enough to carry our gear? Should a State Park support non-profit clubs with strong public service components? Or is the commercial monopoly concession their only business model? "As much as I dislike taking positions that oppose the Sierra Club, I think the Club has the environmental interests of the region on backwards in this case. Close-in recreation, especially recreation involving small non-motorized boats, has an environmental and social value that is going unrecognized by the Sierra Club and by the planners and advocates who seem to be in control. There is real danger that we'll end up with a waterfront that relates to the water in name only, with no way to actually do anything involving boats. We can change this. Please attend the workshop on September 24, and take part in shaping this new waterfront park. For more background, see the letter archived at www.well.com/user/pk/waterfront/ESP-OpenLetter-1.html." |
YOTREPSSeptember 10 - 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 UpdatesSeptember 10 - 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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