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Here is a little more boardsailing information:

• If the SFO Airport  2:00 PM or 3:00 PM  report is 18 Knots or better from 270 to 300 degrees, I am almost certain to have a good day on the water.  At 260 or less, the wind tends to be offshore which does not work well sometimes.  However, these days are occasionally good.  At 290 the wind lines up with the channel and the wind blown fetch grows up to three feet with 20 knots of wind and an ebb tide.  Stronger winds will build swells as high as six to eight feet.  Lots of fun if you have a small enough sail.  On the standard 20 knot days, I use a 4.9 sq. meter sail for my 155 lb. and my buddy Ken Poulton uses a 5.4 sq. meter sail for his 185 lb.  On the big wind days, he uses my 3.9.
• Dec 18, 2021 note: I tried the link below and it directed me to Wired Pier Environmental Field Station which has a camera view of the Bay Bridge. I looked for a bit and could not find the roof cam. It sounds like the roof cam was useful so I moved this information about it from the home page to this page to avoid losing it.

  You can finally get that sneak preview of Crissy Field and the Golden Gate as the Exploratorium camera has been back up and running now for a couple weeks now.  You can also find it by going to exploratorium.edu and click "new roof cam". The resolution is great and the camera has a 25x zoom capability. Every 15 minutes, a series of preset pictures are added to the archive, so you can see a recent snapshot of the launch area or the sailing area even if someone else has control of the camera. You can also view a series of snapshots after the fact to see when the wind came up and when it dropped. The camera is now controlled by only one person at a time and you can tell when you are in control and how much time you have remaining. The beautiful thing is that with the 25x zoom and the ability to point the camera, you can really check out details. If you double click on a spot in the picture, the camera will recenter to that point.

• The NOAA Tides and Currents did not work on Dec 18, 2021. Perhaps it has moved to another location.

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Last Updated on 18 Dec 2021