July 19, 2001

By Grzegorz | July 19, 2001

Thistle PCCs

July 19 – Pt. Richmond

It was a windy (in the 20s) weekend for 14 Pacific Coast Thistles,
with square waves on normally flat Keller’s Cove.

Terry Lettenmaier of Seattle, editor of
fleet magazine Bagpipe, won the championship, placing
first or second in all five races. Terry’s crew were brother
Dennis and wife Laurie. The unofficial Latitude 38 award
for best boat name goes to second place finisher, Dale Hinman,
with Loco Beef (he has a picture of a mad cow on his transom).

The event was hosted by Richmond Yacht
Club, and you can view more photos at their Web site, www.richmondyc.org.
We hope to have complete results in the August issue of Latitude 38.

The start of Race 2

At the weather mark; the winning boat is #3922, out in front.

The downwind parade

For Race 3, the race committee threw in a reaching mark.

The start of Race 1, before the wind really
built

The first downwind leg

Sayonara’s (not that Sayonara, but nice job on
the graphics) skipper, George Samuels, got conked on the head
during the second race, requiring 6 staples and no more racing
for the weekend.

Tippecanoe, a good name for a wooden dinghy

Photos Latitude/Chris

YOTREPS

July 19 – 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 19 – 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

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.

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