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

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Our main objective is to bring the
boat to this waters as fast as possible.

That is IMHO, VERY bad planning.

This is a totally weather dependant trip.

It is uphill all the way and subject to some very nasty weather along
the way.

A friend of mine just did a S/D to S/F delivery. It was mostly engine
time and they managed to miss the nasty stuff since most of it was north
of S/F.

HTH

Lew

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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


If you stop in SF, you can anchor out at the entrance to Richardson
Bay (off Sausalito) for a few days for zero cost. Good bay mud...
just about anything will stick to it.


--
Jonathan Ganz (j gan z @ $ail no w.c=o=m)
http://www.sailnow.com
"If there's no wind, row."

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

It
might be a good investment to pay for a weather router for this trip.

Thanks Paul, do you know how much a weather router charges and can you
recommend anyone?

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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?

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It
might be a good investment to pay for a weather router for this trip.


Thanks Paul, do you know how much a weather router charges and can you
recommend anyone?

You won't pay much for a weather router, probably less than 200. You can
probably get some names when you get to San Fran.

Paul

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