Weather

"No Skipper, be his boat large or small, notes with pleasure a falling barometer, a brassy sunset, a big swell and the prospect of what may follow. Engines can fail, rudders carry away, freak seas smash down - things to be neither foreseen nor forestalled. Might not this same gale now portending be the legendary Masterwind - the Wrath of God that would some day rage to rip plank from timber, breath from body, and lash the very oceans from their beds to drown all the lands?"

from "Handling Small Boats in Heavy Weather" by Frank Robb

Well, it's true that one of the most important information a sailor may want is the weather forecast, so here are your...

...Weather Facts!

http://sailing.info-access.com/

National Weather Service Forecast Office: San Francisco Bay Area/Monterey

The link below will take you to the place where you can find real-time buoy reports on the weather. Among them will be data on wave height, and forecast.

Interactive Marine Observations

Additional useful weather information

Understanding waves

Sea sickness