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Photos of the DayNovember 28 - Bahia Santa Maria, BCS Memories are made of times such as this, with the Ha-Ha fleet starting the final leg from Bahia Santa Maria. The 0600 start is the earliest of any race we know of. In fact, the sun had barely come over the horizon before the gun went off. |
Photos Latitude/Andy |
Kilpatrick Hungry and Apparently HealthyNovember 28 - Southern Ocean What caused the blockage? According to Rich Robert's article in yesterday's L.A. Times, Tara Kilpatrick says having been thrown violently against the stove might have caused Keith's intestines to become inflamed, or perhaps it was a chunk of partially prepared freeze-dried food that hadn't been adequately hydrated which got stuck. In any event, all of the Long Beach sailor's friends are delighted to hear he appeared to be fine. Meanwhile on the race course, the racing continues to be incredibly tight. With 1,667 miles to go in this leg, Team SEB has a very narrow lead over four of the other six boats, and Amer Sports One is still within striking distance. |
Rich & Bill's Record Setting AdventureNovember 28 - Melbourne, Australia |
Photos Courtesy www.sitesalive.com |
All in Just a MonthNovember 28 - Puerto Escondido, Mexico "Though we only used one gallon of gas during the entire Ha-Ha, going around the Cape and heading north required lots of motorsailing! I nominate our 9.9 hp auxiliary outboard as the hardest working northbound piece of gear on our boat, after bravely pushing us through through lots of steep chop, the prop sometimes biting only air. (Southbound, the hardest working piece of gear was the autopilot struggling to straighten us out after we accelerated on the crests of some big swells. Whoa!) "Puerto Escondido was our destination for meeting friends who brought our truck and trailer down to us, so imagine rounding the corner to the inner harbor to find . . . another F-31! After being the multihull baby in the Ha-Ha fleet, we're freaked to find Al and Cindy Pagel with UFO, getting ready for a southbound romp. Another Ha-Ha boat, Air Ops, the Amel Maramu 46, pulled into Puerto Escondido on the 20th while we were busy de-rigging for the long drive to home. We finished up November 25 back in our parking spot at Alameda, exactly four weeks and a day after leaving. I guess that makes us one of the the fastest Ha-Ha boats to make a round trip - though not exactly a Baja Bash. Have we crammed enough into this vacation as possible?" |
Dave and Tint The Siesta gang |
YOTREPSNovember 28 - 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 UpdatesNovember 28 - 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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