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


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?

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

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 21:35:25 -0700, Evan Gatehouse wrote:

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

I'd really look into trucking. I paid $2200 to truck a 33' from SD to S. Oregon, so I'd
think you could get it done for $4K or less. There are a lot of new boats heading south,
so there are deals to be had with truckers that don't like to deadhead. You're looking at
a 10-15 day trip if you don't get stalled by weather - how much is your time worth?

Maybe you can sail/motor of SF and truck the remainder. You could always opt for that
after enduring the easy part of the trip...

Up here off the S. Oregon coast, 60 miles out means gale/small craft warnings from the
north pretty much all year. Closer to shore, you get little wind but a lot of residual
seas. Real close to shore, and you can avoid the 1/2 knot current south. Of course,
there are lots of sharp, hidden rocks in the near shore waters.

I actually had the free time to move my Ranger 33, but I decided the logistics, the fuel
(it's uphill all the way), the wear and tear on the rig, engine, and sails (you might
consume a mainsail during the trip) weren't worth the "adventure value".

I even considered a hop-scotch trip, making short trips, relieving crew (new crew drives
to intermediate port, old crew takes car home), but it looked like a multi-month endeavor
with even higher fuel costs, mooring fees, restaurant dinners, etc.

In my case, despite the financial calculations, it was a new (to me) boat, and I didn't
yet trust her (engine, mostly).