Pura Vida en La Bahia de San Francisco

Here's a brief synopsis for all you budding weather fans and forecasters out there.

SAN FRANCISCO BAY WIND ARCHIVES

unfortunately this graphic didn't stay on my blog. just picture a map of the golden gate bridge with a giant red arrow indicating strong steady winds greater than 25 knots per hour.

SITE MAP Francis L. Ludwig Observed Winds for 5/4/2008 1400 PST

Look at Most Recent Model Output		Click on the map to get a precise reading
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Wind speeds are in knots. Arrow size indicates exact speed, color gives approximate speed.
All speeds are for the wind at 10 meters above the surface elevation.

Note: See the big red arrow above?! That's over 25 nautical miles per hour (just under 30mph) and that's the baseline. Now, try sailing a 29' Ericson from Sausalito to just South of Jack London Square in Oakland - out towards Alcatraz, past San Francisco in front of Treasure Island, steady swells the entire time to your back and then under the Bay Bridge and into the safety of the Oakland estuary in the above pictured scenario.

The National Weather Service still has its small craft advisory up with a gale force wind warning from Point Arena to Point Conception in the outer waters.

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA

 PZZ530-051130-
/O.CON.KMTR.SC.Y.0043.000000T0000Z-080505T0700Z/
/O.EXB.KMTR.SC.Y.0043.080505T1900Z-080506T0600Z/
SAN FRANCISCO SAN PABLO SUISUN BAY AND THE WEST DELTA-
821 PM PDT SUN MAY 4 2008

...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT PDT
TONIGHT...
...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
MONDAY EVENING...

.TONIGHT...SW WINDS 15 TO 25 KT WITH GUSTS TO 30 KT...DECREASING TO
10 TO 20 KT AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.MON...SW WINDS 5 TO 15 KT...INCREASING TO 15 TO 30 KT IN THE
AFTERNOON.
.MON NIGHT...SW WINDS 15 TO 30 KT...DECREASING TO 10 TO 20 KT BY
MIDNIGHT.
.TUE...SW WINDS 5 TO 15 KT.
.TUE NIGHT...W WINDS 10 TO 20 KT. PATCHY FOG.
.WED...W WINDS 5 TO 15 KT. PATCHY FOG.
.THU...SW WINDS 5 TO 10 KT...BECOMING W 10 TO 15 KT. PATCHY FOG.
.FRI...SW WINDS 5 TO 10 KT...BECOMING W 10 TO 15 KT.

Cap'n Super Dave piloted the Res Ipsa right through like there was no tomorrow. And there was a couple of times where tomorrow did run across my brain, especially when we saw this as we were leaving the Sausalito channel.

Click on the pic above to see that it is not a tiny sailboat nor is it a larger sailboat underneath a swell. It is in fact the advisory the Coast Guard posted all day long about a sunken vessel in the Sausalito straight. No wonder we didn't see many boats out today.