San Diego to Catalina
Jim,
I have done the San Diego to Catalina run almost every year (after the Ensenada Race). I am usually singlehanding, and will usually motorsail (early morning departure from Shelter Island guest dock) to Dana Point arriving mid afternoon. Spend the night there (great Muni Guest docks, showers, choice of restaurants), then motorsail again early morning depart to Avalon arriving early afternoon again. If you arrive in Avalon mid-week, you are pretty much assured of a moorning thru the weekend. The sail from Avalon back to San Diego will be downwind, and even tho it is still a healthy mileage, will seem to fly by because of the easy point of sail. You could break this up into a multi weekend deal by leaving the boat at Dana Point, or at Avalon (not allowed technically) and then not have such a burden of the travel times.
Michael Krebs
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