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 [...]

It has been a glorious Summer here at Channel Islands Harbor this year. We have had very little marine layer and temps seem to be up about 10 degrees on average during the day. Most days in July and August have been in the 70’s and now the water is approaching that elusive swimming temperature [...]

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, [...]