VANCOUVER ISLAND WINDTALK

As many have noticed, the CB weather station has been down for a few months. Something had chewed through our cables yet again. Today Mattdog and I installed a new wireless weather station at CB. The new station should give more accurate temperature readings and it has a rain gauge. Hopefully it will be more reliable too. Here's some info on it for those that are interested:
http://www.davisnet.com/weather/product ... pnum=06152

I also put up a wireless router so now you can browse while you rig. It's password protected but I'll give out the password to people that contribute to the site (either with $ or by posts/sailing logs).

Thanks to everyone that has donated... this is where your money goes.

Thanks so much to Mattdog for his help today and for keeping the CB webcam and weather station going. And thanks to Betty for letting us have everything in her house!

Dave

Thank you Gentlemen.

and thank you BWD for the enchiladas and Dos Equis today. It's pretty good stuff. Stay thirsty my friends

Thanks BWD and Mattdog!

Bring on the big CB SE'lies!

woo hooo!!!!

Thanks guys!

Thanks Dave, Mattdog and Betty!
Internet access while we rig, dine or wait will be great. Can' t wait for those SE'ers to arrive ........ bring on the waves and wind

jellyfish wrote:Thanks Dave, Mattdog and Betty!
Internet access while we rig, dine or wait will be great. Can' t wait for those SE'ers to arrive ........ bring on the waves and wind

Yesssss!! Thanks a whole bunch, work crew and hosts $25 for the install from me to pay for in part fuel (hope you didn't stop at a fast food place or drink from plastic water bottles, hahaha) , maybe others will add to it

Rig and surf online? You must have more arms/hands than I!

Thanks guys.

So, winter up-island sailing...we may have to try it this year.

Thank-you for all of your volunteer work guys!

Contrary to what you may think sometimes, your energy/time spent on this website really is never underappreciated.

Nice!

Thanks team!

thanks! Not sure if it does this but hopefully it will help to line up solid SE winds on every weekend for months to come... but that option might only be on the next model up.

Thanks Mattdog and BWD for the upgrade. I thought it might not happen until the southeasters started. Mattdog spends a lot of time cleaning off the lense etc. I saw him there the other day with his bottle of windex(appropriate name). We are very lucky to have such a nice webcam hostess too.

sent my donation, pls other main users contribute too.

Dave, Matt, the host took a day as did others to make this happen, let's try to show our appreciation......and yes a huge thanks to the host

I note the SP cam is being paid down, cool, i would support a Cordova Bay or Comox, Nile Creek or Salmon Point Marina cam over SP but i know Ray is pretty adamant one is needed there

Nile Creek would be awesome. There is a house on the beach plus a hydro station. We have seen excellent winds there too, with truer sideshore with onshore waves than CB where the wave/wind relationship is equivalent to a side-on wind.

Thanks for reminding me KUS. I hope to get a handle on this spot this winter

Nile Creek and Salmon Point...? Please tell more about these spots!