Good going! I had zero luck and got on the list for Dana Point some years
ago. By the time I get there in two more years I'll have a slip. For my
33' LOA boat thatrequires a30' dock. Wait time damn near five years. Up in
Washington wait time for some marinas but you can always get into something
right away. Oregon there aregood deals in Coos Bay and Brookings not toobad
in Newport and Astoria but then . . .it's a transit area at best on thewhole
coast. So I'm going to kill time by trucking the boat from Seattle to Great
Lakes, then go down the St. Lawrence, down the E. Coast with some ICW, have
a choice of staying North or hiding outin Mobile for the storm season then
the Caribbean on a circle ending up in Corpus Christi and truck back to the
West coast. By then I'll have to sit out the Mexico storm season and that's
what Dana's for. During sit outs I go back to work for a few months. For
someone cruising the west coast going West on the Great Lakes and trucking
to Vancouver or Seattle and then using that area to do a trip to Alaska and
explore the PNW works well. Downthe coast going off shore a couple hundred
unless you like surflining and harbor hopping and it's a lot of really great
scenery but not a run for beginners. Choice then is out around the N. Pac
high to Hawaii, down to Mexico and Central America with the flock or think
about out of the Straits and due South, skip by Easter Island and curve SE
to the Juan Fernandez Islands. Great cruising according to the two I know
who did it and they were the only boats there (yachtie type). Venture on
South around S. America or return N. to the de riguer Tahiti or back up to
Hawaii and down the Line Islands for something different. There's lots of
choices besides ho hum Mexico. . .course ifyou've never been done the block
to the corner itwill be there. And for gosh sakes don't think about Oregon.
Nice to pass through but economicallyit's a high tax appalachia west. you
either work for the government, areon welfare or independently rich . . .or
you leave. And then there's that coastal rain . . . . .


M.


Lots of adventures left . . . .. .think 'off freeway'.

"Alan Gomes" wrote in message
news:MU9Pc.195592$%_6.170990@attbi_s01...
Depends on the marina. This is true for Alamitos Bay (actually, it's worse
than a year.) However, I got into Holiday Harbor in San Pedro after being
on
the list for only a month. (Nice marina, too.)

--Alan Gomes


"Michael" wrote in message
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Average waiting list for a slip in S. California 30' a year or more, 35'
3-5
years, 40' how many decades you have left?


"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 06:07:04 GMT, Rosalie B.
wrote:
The Boot Key bridge entrance is deep enough, but there is an electric
line over the entrance just past the bridge that would keep anyone
with a tall mast from going in there. It's the Sister's Creek
entrance that's iffy, although I have heard of someone with a 6 foot
draft doing it at high tide.

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Thanks. The mast on our new (to us) trawler tops out at just under 27
feet so should not be a problem :-)

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We hope to be cruising down to the Keys by winter and living aboard by
next summer. We'll look for you on the ICW.