You are quite right. The west coast of the Americas has a lot to offer zone without the choking tourist traps if the overcrowded Caribbean. From Washington state, we have good cruising right at hand as well as the inland passage all the way up to Alaska. One can gunk hole their way up all the way or stop at any number of little fishing outposts on the coast of BC Canada on up to the Alaska panhandle. You meet other sailors but it's rarely a crowd and often vast, wild and remote. In winter, the place to go is south. The sea of Cortez is about 1000 miles long zone and compared to the north Pacific, easy and warm. There is also excellent whale watching activity and plenty of fishing. Our boat us very seaworthy, not at all dock jewelry, but a real sailors boat that is rugged enough to go anywhere on the planet. The man I purchased her from put in over 50,000 miles on the pacific, but I'm not nearly to that with just two years sailing this boat.Kradmelder wrote:Going to sea must be great if your boat can go significant distances. It really gets away from the crowd. Can you sail down to Mexico? the Pacific Coast must be so much less touristy than the Caribbean. what about going up the west coast of Canada to Alaska? all those remote coasts to land on.
A mate of mine, his son went off as crew for some large yacht owned by ceo of a multinational. He made a fair sum for a young man but ended up blowing it all on some girl he met. I bet lots of gold digger types hang out around yachts.
At least other people have interests beyond trolling for women in pick up bars or chinese/Russian women Internet sites
I should say, to sail down to Mexico is the easier part, and on the return, you are more challenged. To sail north requires some big port tacks of nearly a week each. To sail to Hawaii from the northwest, it's down the coast and westward from points south of Monterey where you hit the favorable trade winds. To return east from Hawaii us a different matter, and we sail north to find the winds and currently that will take us east towards Seattle. If we are totally becalmed we have the auxiliary diesel to motor our way out if it, but our range on motor alone is only about 1300 nautical miles unless we add some capacity. We run a Deutz diesel that is over 30 years old but just rebuilt. They are very tough so long as you give them clean fuel. So overall, it's a very sturdy boat of 25 T gross that will take you anywhere you are brave enough to point her. This coming season it's the northwest inside passages, but the tear after, I want to pint her towards the south seas with no particular plan.