Sailing Links
A variety of sailing/windsurfing-related sites by CSC members and others.
Weather Links
- SF Boating.com - Marine Weather Links
- NWS - Doppler Radar
- NWS - Bay Area Weather
- Real-Time San Francisco Bay Wind Patterns
- NWS - Bay Area/Monterey Forcast
- San Francisco Bay PORTS
- BoatingSF.com - General Bay Area boating information, including real-time and time-lapse map of ship movements around the bay.
Bay Area sailing links
- SF Boating.com - Bay and Delta Sailing Links
- Berkeley Yacht Club
- Friday night races out of Berkeley
- Treasure Island Yacht Club
- Corinthian Yacht Club
Other sailing related links
- The latest Racing Rules from the International Sailing Federation
- Knots on the Web - Want to find out anything about knots? This place has loads of links to knot pages.
- Animated knots - Can't quite get down how to tie a bowline? This scout troup in the UK has some pretty good animated GIF's of how to tie bowlines, figure eights, and more!
- Other Local Sailing Clubs - Yahoo has a vast list of links to sailing clubs, including this one!
- Current wind conditions on the Bay and Delta, charted graphically on a satellite photo.
- Ever wonder what the Beaufort Scale is? This page from the National Weather Service in Chicago provides a history of the wind scale, charts and pictures.
- Tide data updated real time, including nifty Java plots of the data.
- Regular and marine weather forecasts for the Bay Area can be found at the National Weather Service.
- Iwindsurf (was: Call of the Wind) provides wind, tide, and current information about many windsurifng locations around North America and Hawaii. Get a pager that lets you know when it is time to leave work!
- San Francisco Boardsailing Association is a non-profit organization that addresses concerns of the boardsailing community in the San Francisco Bay Area. They also maintain a "windtalker" at the Berkeley Marina where you can call and check the current wind conditions.
Home pages by CSC members
- Fishmeal's Berkeley Water Front Resource Guide
- Fishmeal's home page
- ^bb^'s home page
- Bill Prinzmetal's How to Windsurf in 10 steps
- Tides and currents for San Francisco Bay by Ed Corbett
Comercial Links
- Berkeley Board Sports http://www.boardsports.com, 1601 University. 843-9283, is a huge supporter of the windsurfing program at CSC. Good place for wetsuits and other windsurfing supplies. Don't forget to mention you are from CSC and thank them for their support!
- Delta Windsurf http://http.deltawindsurf.com 916-777-2299 is another of our much-appreciated supporters, and a great place to get gear for the Delta and beyond.
- West Marine http://www.westmarine.com, 880 Potter Street, Berkeley 883-9170, is our local and internet source for most of our hardware. It's a good place for foul weather gear, line, rigging, and just about anything else you can imagine spending your money on.
- Svendsen's Chandlery http://www.svendsens.com, 1851 Clement Ave., Alameda, 800-824-2391, is our supersalty source for swedish snap shackles, self-tailing winches, trapeze harnesses, holystones, X-ply, and all the specialized stuff and savvy so essential to our sailboats salubrious.
- Berkeley Marine Center http://www.berkeleymarine.com 843-8195 is where our keelboats get their haulouts right here in the Berkeley Marina.
- Course Junction http://www.coursejunction.com
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