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wrote:

We are bringing a 44 feet sailboat from San Diego to Victoria, Canada
in a couple of weeks (we are planning to leave on August 7th) and I was
wondering if you have some advise for us. We are planning to do an
offshore route, about 60 miles away from shore and maybe stopping in
San Francisco (weather permits). Our main objective is to bring the
boat to this waters as fast as possible.

I'm bringing 3 crew members and myself. All crew members are
experience sailors. The boat is well equipped for offshore use
including a good set of electronic gear as well.

If you did a similar trip I would appreciate any advise you can give us
regarding navigation, charts, provisioning, amount of fuel, water, etc
etc.

Thanks

This is far from the typical or recommended approach up the coast. Most
folks either go up the coast, staying near by and watching the weather,
or they go way offshore, around the Pacific high. Go to the Latitude 38
site and search some of their old letters. They have a number of
responses from folks who went up the coast from SF. Going up the coast
from SF typical means a lot of motoring and sitting out the weather. It
might be a good investment to pay for a weather router for this trip.

Paul