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I was wondering if anyone has sailed the west coast from LA to Vancouver at this time of year or any other. How was the trip? I have heard it is an uncomfortable sail heading north, is that true?
This is a bad time to go. Killed some folks on the Washington Coast just a week or so back and there was a discussion about a similar trip made a couple years ago here:
Early fall you can get some good windows of flat calm. Otherwise it can be hell. Have you read 2 YEARS BEFORE THE MAST?
In my gallery are 2 dolphins in flat calm crossing my bow at Point Conception. 2 years earlier in the exact same spot it was 50+mph wind, and 20ft+ seas. Winter is not a good time to do the coast north......i2f
I was watching a video on Youtube a few days ago of this sailboat traveling from Canada to Mexico stuck in a gale 100 miles off the Oregon coast with 20-30 foot seas.
That does happen. We clipped a gale this past delivery we did from SF to Bellingham. Twas no picnic..
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