Tips on Boating in the Open Seas
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Aside from that day, boating for me has got to be one of the most freeing, exhilarating things in life that you can do. Once you put your boating shoes on and step onto a boat as it moves farther away from land, you begin to feel the wind pick up around you causing your hair to blow wildly and wickedly smacking away as if sails in the wind.
In California, if sailing from Los Angeles, a couple of things to keep in mind are, that there are not that many harbors, and mooring is scarce. It is a good idea to watch for merchant ships, the wind comes up at 1PM and goes down at 6PM.
Sailing the Pacific is much different than sailing the Atlantic, or the Gulf in that the waters are deeper there. Off the coast of Georgia once, a group of friends and I were once anchored while the tide left us aground for eight hours on a sand bar! Thinking that we were only going out for about an hour, we were without food. Talk about being prepared ahead of time. At least we were smart enough to stock the cooler with water. Gilligan’s Island, the series, didn’t seem as ludicrous a story to me after that day. Not that we were totally shipwrecked by any stretch of the imagination, but, being without some fundamental necessities such as beer? What were we thinking?
You become entranced by the breezes leaving a salty film on your windshield, your face, your hair, you suddenly become one with the ocean. You are one with the sea and all unseen treasures beneath you. The wonderment, the amazing peace that becomes your whole being, is unmatched in desirous feelings. Two of the most frequently traveled destinations are Catalina Island and Mexico. Serious boater’s race sailboats from Newport to Ensenada, Mexico, or Los Angeles to Catalina Island. Boating off the coast of southern California with great weather enables 12 months of boating. Whereas, on the east coast you have the elements of hurricane’s to concern yourself with, restricting the times that you can sail away confidently knowing you’ve nothing to worry about.
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Tips on Boating
in the Open
Seas by
Rendi Cloe
Johnson