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.

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 00:48:08 GMT, wrote:


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.

I would take a peep in Jimmy Cornell, World Cruising Routes.
In this very useful book you find maps and descriptions that inform
you about the storm seasons anywhere on the globe.
When you want you use your pc: Visual Passage Planner by digwave.com
VPP lets you plan your passage in a smooth way. You enter your
waypoints and VPP generates reports with distance, time needed etc.
It also presents info from historised weather-info for every month of
the year.

HTH, Len
S/v Present

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k.net...

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

"d parker" wrote:
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.

Thanks everyone.

I already have Cornell's World Cruising Routes. So I guess
the best route is Route D from San Diego to Marquesas and
then Route A from Marquesas to Thailand as shown on the
inside front cover of this book.

My destination is Lanta Island in Thailand and I'll have to
spend at least a few months there. Will I have to sail against
the wind if I want to return to San Diego the same way ?

wrote in message
k.net...

"d parker" wrote:
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.

Thanks everyone.

I already have Cornell's World Cruising Routes. So I guess
the best route is Route D from San Diego to Marquesas and
then Route A from Marquesas to Thailand as shown on the
inside front cover of this book.

My destination is Lanta Island in Thailand and I'll have to
spend at least a few months there. Will I have to sail against
the wind if I want to return to San Diego the same way ?

Yep! Particularly if you travel in winter during the trades. Though its a
perfect opportunity for you to criss cross the pacific on your way home and
explore other places.

DP

In article t,
wrote:

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.

If you have the time, you might want to go to your main library and look
up the most recent edition of a publication produced by the Naval
Weather Service Environmental Detachment, Ashville, N. Carolina. At one
time you were able to buy it at one of our U.S Government Printing
offices (under NAVAIR 50-1C-61 when I got one ages ago). It's official
title was "Mariners Worldwide Climatic Guide to Tropical Storms at Sea".

43 pages of interesting information regarding tropical cyclones,
tropical storms, and hurricanes.

63 charts (it's "Worldwide") showing, on a monthly or bi-weekly basis,
the storm and hurricane tracks throughout a given region (like Eastern
North Pacific) - giving the average speed, and average number for that
time period.

312 charts broken down into three groups (cyclone, storm, or hurricane)
giving a month by month breakdown in 10 X 10 degree sections of a
particular region (like Southwest Pacific & Australian) of the mean
speed for the storm/cyclone/hurricane, frequency of a given direction
for that speed with % of occurrence in that direction, average speed and
direction for all the aforementioned information plus statistical data
(like probability of having a storm/cyclone/hurricane in this area for
the given month).

Amazingly enough, all of the above information is packed into a single
weather rose and there are four weather roses per 10X10 section - one
for each quadrant.

Talk about information overload! And all you get are the odds (but
that's the way it is with weather).

Shows you what we can get for our tax dollars

Personally, I think Len has the right idea. There are quite a number of
cruisers who have been sailing the Pacific for many years. Some of them
have been interested in helping people like you get the information you
need in order to cruise the Pacific in manner that is safe and
rewarding. You may even find them in this newsgroup and elsewhere on the
internet but, short of knowing someone who has been sailing the Pacific
for some time, I think a little time spent at the right library or
bookstore would be your best bet.

Lots of luck.

ron

wrote:
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.

The classic time to go from Mexico (or California) to French
Polynesia is March - May. From then on, you've got 6 months
to get to New Zealand to get out of typhoon season. But are
you talking "gale/storm" or "tropical storm"? No
guarantees on the first one.

Evan Gatehouse