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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

60 miles offshore is a poor position IMO. You're a good
distance from shore if the weather turns foul and you want
to duck in to a harbour, but not far enough out to benefit
from going over the top of the Pacific High.

My suggestion would be stick close to shore, leave port if
the weather is for 15 knots even from the N quadrant, and
motor a lot to get there.

Evan Gatehouse