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Trabiezo
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This is a 43 foot Sloop a Westsailany info will be appreciated Newbie43 Thank you
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Pinglash
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Bashing up the coast with the wind and currents against you is going to be long and ugly. Better you should head to Hawaii, then north around the Pacific high. The time required will be about the same, but much more pleasant.
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Psaa
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You got a good boat to do it in. But your going to be motoring a lot, and it will be difficult. If you have some time on your hands and can afford to wait out the weather in various ports, which incidentally is really fun you should make it. eventually
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Eazy
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833 nautical miles. Let is say ur LWL is 39 feet (boat length at the water line). Maximum Hull Speed = 1.34 * (LWL)1/2. The maximum speed of the boat is: 8.37 knots.
So at non-stop maximum pace, sailing 24/7 it would take theoretically 4 days to get there. Reality - not even close.
You have the prevailing southern California Current & headwinds. Sailboats rarely hit hull speed until the conditions r perfect (substantial wind & calm seas).
Furthermore, you're going to sail a lot farther than 833 miles unless u motor straight into the winds & do not tack. If u tack, ur distance becomes approximately 1,178 miles (perfect close haul at 45 degrees into wind). A reasonable rate against current, wind & waves would be 4 knots. That would be 12.3 days sailing 24/7 nonstop.
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Coach
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Formersalt nailed it. Except s/he forgot to mention the part about how the northern trip around the North Pacific High generally sucks. Sad to say, you're going the wrong way; Seattle to LA in the summer can be a pleasant trip. My most realistic advice would be to put it on a flatbed truck, or else hire an experienced delivery skipper. With the latter option u can go along as owner/crew, which can be fun as well as educational. The other option is to simply forget that ur Westsail is a sailboat, & just plan on motoring the entire trip.
If u do end up going it alone, forget everything you've ever read about coastal passage making, & hug the shoreline from Pt Reyes all the way to Cape Flattery. The seas off the NoCal/OR/WA coast can be hellacious, maybe 10% of the time in the summer. Even if you're only a few miles offshore, treat the voyage as a 1000 mile ocean passage making; u may simply not be able to get across some (or any) of the bars, other than Crescent City. And get going soon (mid-July at the latest), or you're going to be fighting fog the whole way. Unfortunately we're still getting big seas even this late in the season, so there is not going to be a huge window this year.
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