X-OldHeader: From Eyes4Hire@aol.com-DeleteThis.com Mon Jul 23 12:04:28 2001 Return-Path: <Eyes4Hire@aol.com-DeleteThis.com> Received: from opus.labs.agilent.com (root@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com [130.29.244.179]) by jr.labs.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 AgilentLabs Workstation) with ESMTP id MAA16568 for <wind_talk_ls@jr.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:04:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Eyes4Hire@aol.com-DeleteThis.com Received: from msgbas2.sgp.agilent.com (msgbas2.sgp.agilent.com [141.183.101.231]) by opus.labs.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 AgilentLabs Workstation) with ESMTP id MAA04760 for <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:04:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imo-r04.mx.aol.com (imo-r04.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.100]) by msgbas2.sgp.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE62510B for <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 03:04:33 +0800 (SGP) Received: from Eyes4Hire@aol.com-DeleteThis.com by imo-r04.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31.9.) id v.ff.970e1d0 (3967) for <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:04:19 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <ff.970e1d0.288dcf32@aol.com-DeleteThis.com> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:04:18 EDT Subject: Re: Davis Point Friday. To: wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 40
In a message dated 7/23/2001 10:27:28 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
gs@rtl.rose.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com writes:
> This is way off by at least 10 mph! I did sail out almost 1/2 mile from
> the shore and I didn't see any kind of wind like that. Where is the
> wind sensor for Davis point?
> Has anyone else experienced this kind of discrepancy between the sensor
> and
> reality before? Should I have sailed out a mile or more from shore to
> get the
> "good" wind?
>
I have been using the USGS model to get an idea what is happening out there
and I think it is pretty good.
http://sfports.wr.usgs.gov/wind
The model for 11:00 a.m. showed Davis point going great. At noon it showed
Davis weakening significantly and Pt. Isabel was coming up. Isabel probably
rocked for an hour and a half and then turned into gusty 6.0+ conditions. I
can't get the USGS site to respond tright now, but it might be interesting to
look at the archived hour by hour picture to see how well it reflected what
occurred at Pt. Davis.
As to going out alone at Davis Point... I have a buddy break a mast late in
the day there and it took us three hours to make shore from the channel using
the buddy system including towing for the first hour. The good news is that
the water temperature is pretty high up there since San Pablo Bay is pretty
shallow on the whole. There is minimal boat traffic up there to help out. I'd
excercise the same level of caution I would in the channel off 3rd or Coyote
which for me means ideally a buddy, head in if it gets sketchy, and have a
radio and a light source for true emergencies.
Peter
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