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Race Day: No more need for the weather channel

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Champipple
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Initially Posted - 01/05/2005 : 07:55:20

Thanks to my Wife and Daughter, I won’t have to wake up ever race day morning and sit through 15 minutes of the weather channel just to see the forecast for my local area. I got one of these for Christmas.

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I am in the process of purchasing 2 additional monitors, for indoor use, but I will have all the really good details right off the bat. Then I can look at the weather channel as needed for the possible windshifts throughout the day.

D. Wolff
DPO C25 Hull 401
Currently Sailing "Champagne and Ripple" 1982 O'day 30

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ClamBeach
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Response Posted - 01/05/2005 : 09:35:58

Y'all got a license for that? ;>)

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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 01/05/2005 : 10:31:51

Don't get so engrossed watching the displays that you hit someone...
Derek

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Champipple
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Response Posted - 01/06/2005 : 07:35:33

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Derek Crawford
 Don't get so engrossed watching the displays that you hit someone...
Derek
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This stays at the house Derek....

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Jeff McK
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Response Posted - 01/06/2005 : 07:48:41

That's pretty slick! Now if you can figure out how to beam data from your boat to home...

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Oscar
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Response Posted - 01/06/2005 : 09:19:19

Don't want to be a Scrooge.....but I'm confused....it proclaims to forecast....even long range, although that appears to mean that you can take a mobile unit away from the base station...... (play on words....flag!). Does it build it's own model? Or does it communicate with some sort of weather service? The latter is not advertised......(flag 2!) "animated photo images and sound effects"??

Call me a cynic.....

It appears that it's the digital equivalent of sticking your head out the window, which is cool, but also means that for boating safety you'll still need to get a MARINE weather forecast somewhere else. Rather than the "Meteorological Reality Based Entertainment Channel", which is useless (Disaster Stories, after these messages

), I recommend on-line sources....there are plenty. You can pull up (and print out) a MARINE forecast for your area in seconds.......The best I found is here (and it's the official one too!): (you are in CLE right?)

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/marine/zone/gtlakes/clemz.htm

(Note that near shore forecasts are only given during the boating season, or in winter when necessary to protect property and life. You can get the water temps right now.)

The open lake forecast is available here:

http://weather.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/fmtbltn.pl?file=forecasts/marine/great_lakes/le/lez160.txt

Also gives a nice little chart which identifies all the mysterious locations they use as boundaries for the forecast areas, which is really nice when you are in unfamiliar water. You can even sign up to receive your local marine forecast via e-mail.

Oscar
C42 # 76 "Lady Kay" (Ex. C250 WB #618 )
Georgetown MD/Fort Lauderdale FL

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Champipple
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Response Posted - 01/06/2005 : 22:10:54

I understand what your saying Oscar, and my comment about the lack of need for the weather channel was a bit tongue and cheek. Something you can't get without the facial expressions I made while I was saying (typing) it.

The forcast is basic, it correlates the humidity with the barometer and tells you if its going to rain. Yes I will still need to check the forecast and yes its like sticking your head out the window, but you don't get wet or cold or windblown.

Yes, its a stretch to say I won't have to check anything else, but I can get the near shore and off shore forecasts on the on the way to the club over the hand held vhf. The data collection via computer link will give me wind shifts over the past 24 hours....

Not to mention I can get the temperature of my 3rd floor, second floor and basement without moving a thermometer around the house.

dw
PS - Your comment regarding the Near Shore Forecast during the winter or lack there of - I wish we had a need for a January forecast.
dw

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