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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


It sounds like you are definitely not ready for this trip! Maybe you should
hire an experienced delivery skipper to go along for the ride? Find your
local cruising club in San Diego and sign on for some lectures and start
networking with sailors who can sit down with you to help prepare for this.
Have you checked for books on this cruise that your planning?

I really hope that you've done all the leg work and are just throwing out a
last minute scrap to see if anyone throws you a useful bone that might have
been missed in your intensive pre-cruise planning.

Good luck, fair winds and following seas (in spite of your south to north
oddysey)

P.S., Did you consider having the boat trucked up north?