Originally Posted by
jamottep
Well, I turned around.
. . .
Angry ... is how I was when I came back.
Sounds like you made the right call under the circumstances.
Sailing out of San Diego, too little wind is far more often a problem than too much. At the bottom of the So Cal Bite, and in the lee of the Channel Islands, we frequently have no wind at all overnight. On my last attempt at the sort of thing you were trying, a week ago Monday, the forecast was for decent wind from the south all that day and into the night. I set out hoping to just sail west for 24 hours or more, then back. At 1200, as I left SD bay, the wind was west of south, and gradually clocked further around from the west as the day wore on. So, letting the Monitor keep us on a close reach, our track curved from WNW to NW, until the wind fell off and died altogether at about 2000. At that point I was half way to Catalina Island, so I gave up sailing, and motored on to Avalon.
Frustrating, to say the least. Oh well. We can only sail with what the weather gives us.
Lee
s/v Morning Star
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