Feature TheReview Wednesday, May 8,1991 — A26 Up-to-the-minute weather reports by Girard Hengen The Review Other than a good boat, perhaps nothing matters more to a boater than the weather. It can appear calm, the seas can be gentle, but rounding the tip of an island, a boater can unexpect- edly run into foul conditions. Accurate weather reporting is crucial, and that’s why Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons (CPS) have hooked up with Atmospheric Environment Service (AES). CPS members on the water, with their eyes attuned to ever-shifting conditions, can report what’s hap- pening when it happens. “There’s nothing like being Johnny-on-the-spot,” said Harold Wright, a Rear Commander with ORS, “Weather can change in a matter of minutes,” he said. “No matter how much weather reporting tech- nology is around, there’s no com- parison to the human involve- ment.” Wright, a North Saanich resi- dent, is national chairman of CPS’s marine weather reporting program. A boater observes conditions and makes a report over VHF radio to the Canadian Coast Guard. The Coast Guard passes the information on to AES. There, the bits of information are collated with other weather reports, usually wide-ranging fore- casts, and transmitted for broad- cast. The boater then receives better weather reports via an AES 24- hour-a-day broadcast or regular forecasts. “The idea is to get reporting on the spot, whether good or bad,” said Wright. The program “has already proven to have saved lives and some very bad problems,” he said. CPS was asked to revive the marine weather reporting program in 1988. When the program began in 1985, it covered the Great Lakes and east and west coasts, but the initiative petered out. AES contacted the CPS on the west coast, and from there, after modifications to the program to make it easier for the average boater to use and understand, it SAILBOAT OWNERS AND yachters can benefit from Cana- dian Power and Sail Squadrons marine weather reporting program. The program, which is growing in popularity among CPS members and the public, encourages boaters on the water fo report weather conditions on the spot. has been gaining in popularity, said Wright. “The program is going very well here. When people go out on their boats and report, ... on many occasions Atmospheric Environ- ment Service change their weather reports,” he said. Wright, as chairman, has been dealing with governments in Manitoba, Quebec and Ontario to get programs established there through local CPS squadrons. Contact people have been organ- ized for Victoria and the Peninsula as well. 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