West Coast

January 25, 2019

Day 113

Noon Position: 44 54S 118 10E

Course(t)/Speed(kts): ENE 6+

Wind(t/tws): WNW 25 – 30

Sea(t/ft): W 10

Sky: Low stratus (but the day has seen both rain and clear skies)

10ths Cloud Cover: 10

Bar(mb): 1004+, falling slowly

Cabin Temp(f): 61

Water Temp(f): 50

Relative Humidity(%): 61

Sail: Working jib, two reefs, broad reach on port

Noon-to-Noon Miles Made Good (nm): 139

Miles since departure: 15,804

Avg. Miles/Day: 140

Days since Cape Horn: 56

Miles since Cape ...

Sometime you can spend hours on the committee boat waiting for some action to present itself and there isn't a lot to
show for the time committed. And then there was Sunday at the Corinthian Yacht Club's 2nd Midwinter Race. With a band of moisture
passing through in the early AM, the wet weather held ...

Nathalie Criou is always up for adventure, single handed or with a crew. Last year she competed in the legendary Solitaire Urgo Le Figaro, and this year
she has sights set on the 2019 Race to Alaska. This past weekend, when the midwinters she was to compete in when the forecast suggested marginal conditions, ...

A well written article on Mavericks, December 17 2018 by Marcus Sanders for Surfline


Over the last 33 years, we’ve gotten pretty good at predicting big swells here at Surfline.
Following ‘em from when they’re just wee blips on the models to full-blown purple blobs
in the ocean to actual numbers on the buoys is almost as fun as actual surfing. Seriously.
We love this stuff. At risk of sounding overly poetic, it’s the ever-changing ...

December's Manuel Fagundes Seaweed Soup came in with a quick cold front brushing through the bay in the mid morning hours,
with the brief rainmaker working across the central bay just before the GGYC's 11:30 1st gun.







With a cool brisk westerly in the mid to high teens, and a building ebb, the fleet were all sent west to Blackaller ...

This regatta is a memorial to Grace Cheney who died too young

Got 18 boats this year all but two were carried kites

& of course women drivers only.










Seems fitting it was won by a Wabbit

That’s the fleet Grace belonged to.

Results

Spinnaker

Evelyn Ivie -Bad Hare day ...

After 2017’s miracle run in which 3 Cal 20’s and a Yankee Dolphin took the top 4 finishes, 2018 would prove vastly different. With a swoosh of winter storm clouds brushing the San Francisco Bay from a distant storm off of British Columbia, and the North Pacific High budging ever so slightly, a westerly returned to the bay, giving the early starters a gentle 5-8 knots at the Southampton ...

Tony Carr's list to do on the rehab of the IOR classic Lois Lane got a bit longer over the weekend after a game of bumper cars at the "little alcatraz buoy" during
Sunday's Great Pumpkin Pursuit Race. Tony has been working to get the old cold molded classic ...

After some cage rattling, we managed to scare up some answers:

The Location for the SF Village will indeed be between the StFYC and the GGYC

The setup will probably start for a week to 10 days ...