[scottie55]

What are your top 5 favorite sailing spots?

Here's mine:

1. Newport Beach
2. Catalina Island
3. San Diego
4. Baja California
5. Hawaii

 

[doug1957]

Mine are all in Maine which is where I cruise.
1 - Casco Bay
2 - Eggemoggin Reach
3 - Penobscot Bay
4 - Down East around Mt. Desert

No particular order here

 

[smurphny]

Block Island Sound to
Newport and Narragansett Bay
LI Sound
The Ocean anywhere along the Eastern seaboard Maine to Florida
The Hudson River (I know, not great actual SAILING on the river but I love the Hudson, from The Adirondacks to The Narrows.)

 

[socal c25]

What are your top 5 favorite sailing spots?

Here's mine:

1. Newport Beach
2. Catalina Island
3. San Diego
4. Baja California
5. Hawaii

Ah a local guy...

I don't care to much for newport
Catalina Island is always fun
San Diego is also a good place to sail
haven't done Baja
I do like Santa Barbara / ventura
Hawaii I never sailed but have surfed there
my fifth is all along the southern end of the left coast

 

[Quixotix]

1. Glacier Bay, AK
2. Gulf Islands BC / San Juan Islands, WA
3. Desolation Sound, BC
4. Tracy Arm, AK, specifically Ford's Terror
5. Barkley Sound, BC

 

[ScottUK]

1 – Hauraki Gulf, NZ
2 – West coast of Scotland
3 – The Aegean
4 – Dalmatian coast
5 – West coast of Ireland

 

[Uricanejack]

Well I haven't sailed enough areas to come up with more than 5.
In no particular order
Clyde and West Coast Scotland.
(scenery, Lots of wild life, quiet, lots of nice anchorages with lots of nice pubs)

South Coast England Chanel Islands and North Coast of France.
(Great opertunity to sail across to another country)

Southern Gulf Islands BC and San Juans USA.
(Sheltered waters, Scenery, Wildlife, Accsesabilty, Lots of destinations)
Desolation Sound
(As abouve but more Remote few pubs)
West Coast Vancouver Island.
(Even more remote not so sheltered)

Haven't sailed anywhere else yet
Might be intersting to Ask for 5 place you would like to sail. Maybee we should be saing why we recomend our top 5.

 

[jerryRiggin]

1. Virgin Islands (U.S. or British)
2. Southern out islands of the Bahamas
3. Vieques, Puerto Rico
4. Berry Islands, Bahamas
5. Exumas, Bahamas

The area on the southern coast of Vieques (shown in the map below) is just amazing!

 

[JimsCAL]

Sounds
Bays
Oceans
Lakes
Rivers

Or anyplace there's water and wind.