Club Status Page 

• Check current wind conditions, historical data, tides, forecast, today's hours, webcams

Sailing Links

A variety of sailing/windsurfing-related sites by CSC members and others.

Forecast

• Windguru

Tides in Berkeley

These are predictions only, and the actual water level can be higher or lower depending on barometric pressure, runoff into the Bay, etc. The water by the west dock (the one nearest the club) generally goes dry at about -0.5' MLLW, approximately. The dayleader may opt to use the sketchmobile as rescue skiff, in which case members can go sailing and windsurfing if they choose, even if the mud under the dock is barely moist.

• Berkeley Tides on Club Status page
• NOAA Tides and Currents for Berkeley
• Berkeley Tides (predicted)
• Actual vs Predicted (Richmond)

Knots

• Practical info and links about knots from David Fraser, CSC Cruising Skipper and knot geek.
• Animated knots - Can't quite get down how to tie a bowline? This site has some pretty good step-by-step animations of how to tie bowlines, figure eights, and more.

Resources for Cruising Skippers

BASK Trip Planner This is a great site, the Bay Area Sea Kayakers. Kayakers have to deal with current much more that we sailors do. This is an interactive map of currents in the Bay by date with lots of useful features for trip planning.

• BASK Trip Planner
• Short video on how to use it

NOAA Chart Locator Interactive map of the US showing all NOAA charts

• NOAA Chart Locator

Downloaded Documents These are downloads of various documents, charts, manuals, etc. that could be of use to Cruising Skippers. They are available online, but this is an easy one-stop place to find them. They are not necessarily the latest versions.

• Chart No 1 How to read a nautical chart. Symbols used are explained. (version April 15, 2019)
• Chart No 18649 A PDF version of the entire SF Bay from the entrance on in
• Boaters Guide to Federal Requirements for Recreational Boats Required equipment for different types of boats
• Navigation Rules of the Road Right of Way Rules, all of them, including running lights required for different types of boats (version 4.07.2017)
• Aids to Navigation A short "cheat sheet" on buoys, markers, etc. for the US
• Bowditch aka The American Practical Navigator, a classic, updated a number of times. A real "brick" (Italian idiom for a very thick book) (1995 edition)

Weather Links

• NWS - Bay Area Weather
• Windy.com wind map
• NWS - Bay Area/Monterey Forcast
• San Francisco Bay PORTS
• BoatingSF.com - General Bay Area boating information, including real-time and time-lapse map of ship movements around the bay.
• Weather Underground
• Current Conditions in South Basin  - Personal Weather Underground station near former Hs Lordships restaurant

Bay Area sailing links

• Berkeley Marina (where we are, our host)
• Berkeley Yacht Club
• Treasure Island Yacht Club
• Corinthian Yacht Club

Other sailing related links

• The latest Racing Rules from the International Sailing Federation
• Ever wonder what the Beaufort Scale is? This page from the National Weather Service in Chicago provides a history of the wind scale, charts and pictures.
• Tide data updated real time, including nifty Java plots of the data.
• Iwindsurf (was: Call of the Wind) provides wind, tide, and current information about many windsurifng locations around North America and Hawaii.  Get a pager that lets you know when it is time to leave work!
• San Francisco Boardsailing Association is a non-profit organization that addresses concerns of the boardsailing community in the San Francisco Bay Area.  
• Scheduled Commercial Traffic In and Out of the Bay This is the dispatch site for the SF Bar Pilots. Useful cruises, along with VHF Channel 14, the Vessel Traffic Service. You can call the Vessel Traffic Service at 415-399-7419 when leaving for a cruise to get info on commercial shipping traffic.

Home pages by CSC members

• Fishmeal's Berkeley Water Front Resource Guide
• Fishmeal's home page
• Bill Prinzmetal's The 10-Step Guide to Windsurfing 

Commercial Links

• Svendsen's Chandlery https://www.svendsens.com, 1851 Clement Ave., Alameda, 800-824-2391, is our supersalty source for swedish snap shackles, self-tailing winches, trapeze harnesses, holystones, X-ply, and all the specialized stuff and savvy so essential to our sailboats' salubriousness.
• Sunset Sailboards, hosted by our own Kev Kan, (510) 919-0913, is the Bay's newest windsurfing only gear shop.
• Delta Windsports, 916-777-2299, is another of our much-appreciated supporters, and a great place to get gear for the Delta and beyond.
• West Marine https://www.westmarine.com, is our local (Oakland, Richmond, and Alameda) and internet source for most of our hardware.  It's a good place for foul weather gear, line, rigging, and just about anything else you can imagine spending your money on.
• Berkeley Marine Center https://www.berkeleymarine.com 843-8195 is where our keelboats get their haulouts right here in the Berkeley Marina.
• Grocery Outlet provides most of the food for our BBQ's, is the best place to get your groceries (including beer and wine) cheap, and their world headquarters are right over the bridge from us.