5200 wrote:
Are there customary stopovers for fuel and parts, half&half etc? Or do
you stay 200 miles out the whole way down? Are there smaller marinas
outside huge industrial areas like SF and San Diego? Thanks.

Lots of small harbours all along the coast. More the
further south you go. WA and OR have few "all weather"
harbour entrances.

I would not go 200 miles out because if the weather turns
foul and you want to run for shelter then you're at least a
day or so away from the coast.

It's up to you where you want to stop - "Charlie's Charts of
the (US?) West Coast" is a decent guidebook

Evan Gatehouse