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imagine2frolic · 01-06-2009, 10:36

What do you consider fair weather? On S.F. Bay it's 25+knots on any given summer day. Can you reef in this along with the chop, and or hove to? Bash is correct about the fog. You can dirty your shorts if you can't see the bow, and a horn just keeps getting closer, and closer.

I've made the trip twice single-handed. Once going south, and the second time coming north. It can be a pleasant sail, or the kind of sail where you question your own sanity of why you are there. Now that's just in one day.

I also encourage you to do it. I also encourage you to give not only the trip more thought, but the resources for the boat you are thinking of being capable. Yes, the boat, and funds you describe will most likely get you south, but then again when that horn gets louder, and closer. You just might be wishing you had saved up a wee bit more money for a boat purchase.

Remember I am not trying to discourage you. I am just trying to share some reality from someone who has done the same trip......BEST WISHES in finding a vessel that will serve you well.......i2f

01-06-2009, 10:36	#5
imagine2frolic Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: N.E. Florida Boat: Simpson, Catamaran, 46ft. IMAGINE Posts: 3,157	What do you consider fair weather? On S.F. Bay it's 25+knots on any given summer day. Can you reef in this along with the chop, and or hove to? Bash is correct about the fog. You can dirty your shorts if you can't see the bow, and a horn just keeps getting closer, and closer. I've made the trip twice single-handed. Once going south, and the second time coming north. It can be a pleasant sail, or the kind of sail where you question your own sanity of why you are there. Now that's just in one day. I also encourage you to do it. I also encourage you to give not only the trip more thought, but the resources for the boat you are thinking of being capable. Yes, the boat, and funds you describe will most likely get you south, but then again when that horn gets louder, and closer. You just might be wishing you had saved up a wee bit more money for a boat purchase. Remember I am not trying to discourage you. I am just trying to share some reality from someone who has done the same trip......BEST WISHES in finding a vessel that will serve you well.......i2f __________________ BORROWED! No single one of us is as smart as all of us! SAILING is not always a slick magazine cover!