[Charlie]

The weather has a few distinct districts for lack of a better word. 1) Going out the Straits can be nasty or wonderful on a recent trip from Port Angleles WA to Astoria OR we had a wondrful sail from PA till about halfway out the staits. From there it was 35 knots on the nose with 6 to 8' seas. We pulled into Seiku and spent the night. The next day we took off around 0900 and ended up motoring all the way to Astoria b/c there was no wind. This was in Sep. We could have motored all the way to CA. In May we got out of Astoria just before the bar closed (river bar that is) and had a nice sail in heavy winds of 20 to 20 apparent from the NW. Then the wind died and clocked to the SW and then died agian. We ended up motoring into Humblot Bay. From there we had a couple of nice days sialing down the coast into the SF Bay. The day after we got in there was a nice gale blowing outside the Gate. I've only done one trip and look at the variety of weather that we had. Choose your window and have plenty of time it can be done comfortably. Set a time frame and it can be done but not necessarily comfortably. And possibly not even safely.