Weather at the Pacific Cup seminar

This seminar was a day-long business during which you drink a lot of hot tea. There were several topics in there and frankly, I didn't learn much during the seminar. It was great to see all these people who will be racing in the Pac Cup. It really does feel like a great community. I am sure that it will be war on the water all the way to the finish line, unless someone is in distress but until then, everyone is helping out with advice to make sure that all these boats make the start line in great shape. And it already gave us a sense of excitement...

I can't wait to do this race!!

First, there was a weather lecture...Bottom line - after the start, every participant is only allowed to download free weather data. You can get raw files (that feeds into any kind of SW that can read and plot them) and you can get data after some clever statistical modeling on top of it.

And you have some cool-looking piece of software that you can buy that will take into account characteristics of your boat and weather data to recommend a perfect course to Hawaii, trying to avoid the South Pole most of the time.

There are also three areas during the Pacific Cup:
A- first three days, cold cold cold summer like reaching/beating...
B- X days, not much going on...
C- we catch the trade winds and have a blast under France all the way to Hawaii

Bottom line and lesson: we need to figure out how to get a laptop to work...and get sailmail and some cool piece of software...