Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Sailing Regatta on Google Earth

Ever since I first discovered Google Earth I've been wondering whether it shows, anywhere in the world, a regatta actually in progress. Last night I found a post on the Google Earth Community with a placemark that is believed to be a regatta on San Francisco Bay. Check it out. If you don't have Google Earth you can download it here.

But can anyone provide any more details as to what we are actually looking at here? Class of boat? Event? What the course is? Is it actually a race in progress? I know at least one of my regular readers sails this area. Comments please.

5 comments:

EVK4 said...

Being an Apple user, I don't have Google Earth...can you post a screenshot?

Litoralis said...
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Litoralis said...

I added some images of the regatta from Google Earth on my blog (litoralis.blogspot.com)

Anonymous said...

I live in the bay area and race almost every weekend. Since it's right off the Berkeley pier, it looks like it's one of the regular Berkeley midwinter regattas -- they're the 2nd weekend of every month.

Anonymous said...

there are a number of great feeds/overlays for sailors. There is one I found in the google community for near real-time buoy data, and aother that shows latest satellite cloud cover.

sailbogs.com also has a cool google earth feed for sailors and sailboats. It shows the current positions of the boats as well as links to their latest blog posts. Google earth is great for sailors in general.

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