I have not looked at the Potter websites lately, but it seems like a
good idea to put a link to the NOAA weather website,
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/
directly on the front page of each boating website, with the advice that
everyone check it, each day prior to sailing. The old salts know about
this, but perhaps the new salts don't. Once at the site, you poke
around for the weather products for your area, and bookmark them for
easy future direct reference.
Mine said this today:
PZZ750-290430-
INNER WATERS SAN MATEO POINT TO MEXICAN BORDER
330 PM PDT WED APR 28 1999
...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY...
.TONIGHT...WIND NW 25 TO 30 KT WITH HIGHER GUSTS...DECREASING TO 15
TO 20 KT OVERNIGHT. WIND WAVES 5 FEET...SUBSIDING TO 3 FEET. SWELL
W 6 FEET.
.THU...WIND NW 15 KT...INCREASING TO 20 TO 25 KT IN THE AFTERNOON.
WIND WAVES 2 FEET...BUILDING TO 4 FEET IN THE AFTERNOON. SWELL W
6 FEET. SLIGHT CHANCE OF AFTERNOON SHOWERS.
.THU NIGHT...WIND W 20 TO 25 KT...DECREASING TO 10 TO 15 KT
OVERNIGHT. WIND WAVES 4 FEET...SUBSIDING TO 2 FEET LATE. SWELL W
5 FEET. SLIGHT CHANCE OF EVENING SHOWERS.
Since we are sunset sailors, we don't go sailing today.
We'll never know it, but we might save a few lives, if we remind folks
to check the weather, and show them how.
:)
Steve Barnes, now a lurker, temporarily sailing a Capri-16, #74, in San
Diego.
(former WWP-14 skipper)
OLDSURFDUDE