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Is it possible to choose the time & route to cross the Pacific
(from California to Asia or Australia) without encountering
any storm (or with a very small chance of encountering one) ?

I'm not thinking about doing this on a 26' MacGregor but still
would like to be as safe as possible.

Not without any storm, but certainly without tropical storms- hurricanes,
cyclones, typhoons (same thing).. Aim to be in the nothern hemispshere end
of winter when you leave. Cross into to doldrems ( 5 Degrees above and below
the equator) then enter the southern hemisphere tropics in the new winter of
the south. Tropical storms usually only occur in summer and in the tropics.
However sever localised storms can develop in all seasons,
although in this part of the world ( semi-tropics in Aus) they mainly occur
in summer.

Some storms are quite small, only a few Kilometers accross. Tropical storms
can be a hundred kilometers in diameter.

DP