"Evan Gatehouse" wrote in message
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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

Errr.... The safest place to be is either far enough away from the coast to
not have to worry about hitting it in a storm or close enough to get into a
storm hole.

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