July 16, 2002

PICYA Championships

July 16 – San Francisco

Results are in from last weekend’s PICYA
Big Lipton/Larry Knight/Little Lipton/Admiral’s Cup. They should
be posted on www.picya.org
soon. In the meantime, here’s a teaser:

In the Big Lipton (PHRF 48-99), Bill Melbostad
of San Francisco YC driving the J/120 El Ocaso with 1,2,2
squeezed by Kim Desenberg of Richmond YC on the Beneteau 40.7
Mojo Rising with 2,1,3. In the Larry Knight Class (100-156),
the SFYC again emerged victorious, with David Walker’s Custom
Mull 32 The Shadow winning 2 out of 3 races. Little Lipton
(157-206) went to Island YC and Dan Newland’s Hawkfarm Redhawk.
The Admiral’s Cup featured a three-way tie between Michael
Mathiasen of IYC sailing the 24-ft Killer Whale Dulcinea
and the Tuna 22s Soliton, RYC, Mark Lowry, and perennial
winner Summertime Blues, SFYC, Tim McGowan, with 6 points
each. Dulcinea won the tiebreaker.

Check out our photos and coverage in the
August issue of Latitude
38 too!

Georgia, a Van de Stat 40

Don Wieneke at the helm of the
J/105 Orion

YOTREPS

July 16 – 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 Updates

July 16 – 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/.
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

Check out the Pacific Ocean sea states
at: http://www.mpc.ncep.noaa.gov/RSSA/PacRegSSA.html.

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