Fall in Southern California means Santa Ana winds. Its the changing of the seasons, when pressure gradients form between a High and a Low. This causes the winds to blow from the hot deserts to the coast, creating an offshore wind event. What you hear most about in these blue sky storms are the fires. [...]

Some morning in the not-too-distant future you will wake up and log on to check out what the wind is doing at the Western reaches of the Santa Barbara Channel and you will have a hard time knowing. Buoy #’s 46023 off Point Arguello and 46054 in the middle of the Western Channel itself are [...]

We had a blast this past weekend ! All three Hunter 36’s in the SailTime Channel Islands fleet joined in as did Rainbow, our 33 workhorse and Sancerre played Mothership. Five yachts in all. We had fairly flat seas to start and sailed right out the breakwater on one tack all the way to Smugglers anchorage, [...]