Happy Halloween from the Ha-HaOctober 31 - Baja California The Grand Poobah checked in today with this report off Cedros Island, about 45 miles from Turtle Bay. 108 boats started the Baja Ha-Ha, the highest number ever. 34 of the slower entries started on Monday, and they were blessed with the better winds. Journey, a Beneteau Evasion 37 out of Redwood City, and Compañera, a Tartan 3800 hailing from Cardiff, sailed the whole way to Turtle Bay. The boats which started on Tuesday had wind on the nose to the Coronado Islands, and very light or no wind and overcast skies ever since. These are the most un-Mexican-like conditions in the nine years of the Ha-Ha. One boat, Geronimo, a Lancer 30 from Sausalito, had to drop out with a busted rudder. They put in at Cabo Colnett. Another boat reported catching a 30-inch tuna, but so far no really big fish to brag about. The fleet is looking forward to more wind and sunshine forecast for this weekend. Tuesday's start Photos Above John Pettitt/Cloudview.com Sunday's Halloween costume party in San Diego looks like it had the most sunshine the rally has enjoyed so far. |
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Sole Female Skipper Second to Cross the EquatorNovember 1 - Eastern Atlantic |
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Emma Richards sent in this email yesterday from Pindar to say that she is in the Southern Hemisphere. This makes Richards the second Around Alone skipper to cross the Equator, after Bernard Stamm. "1:18pm - Just crossed the equator at 23deg 37 W! I was down below ready to log where I crossed into the Southern Hemisphere when a squall came in, by the time I had eased the sheets, adjusted course etc., we had crossed but when I was on deck I didn't see the big yellow line painted so it must have washed away at that part. Let me know if Thierry reports the line or not! Anyway, had a sip of fine rum and gave Neptune the rest, hope he liked it, it burned my throat! Emma x" |
Photo Thierry Martinez Courtesy www.aroundalone.com |
YOTREPSOctober 31 - 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 UpdatesOctober 31 - 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/. The National Weather Service site for San Francisco Bay is at www.wrh.noaa.gov/Monterey/. 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/Maps/Southwest.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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