Farallones/Continental shelf sailing aboard the cutter Cetacea in November!

It’s time for our annual Continental Shelf/Farallon Islands sailing adventure aboard the SV cutter Cetacea, a world-class blue-water 42’ fast-cruiser! We'll depart early Sat morning, hanging around the Farallon Islands for sunset photos, then out past the Continental Shelf a hundred miles offshore into the vast starlit darkness, and awakening to ocean sailing in deep blue seas and sunrise over the Farallon islands! Ocean sailing with nothing in sight except the largest mammals on earth; the blue whales, and lots of other migrating whales!

It’s a very unique experience to view the sunrise from the west of the Farallon Islands, as the sun climbs over the "devil's teeth" with nothing else in sight!

There are 2 private staterooms and a Pilot House sleeping area, 2 fully-instrumented helm stations below and in the cockpit, and a big red Japanese Kubota tractor engine to assist us if we hit the tropical doldrums and need the iron spinnaker, as a couple times in past.

Cetacea invites 4-5 responsible and enthusiastic female crew, possibly an experienced sailing couple as in some past events, to join a platonic-only captain and experienced Captain (me!). You should have windy bay sailing experience to consider this mild/moderate offshore sailing adventure and be comfortable with mild swells/waves and darkness and sleeping with 5-15 degrees of heeling on the open ocean in 7-20 knot winds, possibly for hours.

I'm planning on Nov 29/30 simply because the tides are perfect! Nov 15/16 has less favorable tides, but could work if the weather is too great to pass up! So, which of these 2 dates is unknown, as of now.

How cool is it to be far enough off the west coast to see the city light's reflections on the clouds, the Farallon's on the eastern horizon, yet not see the continent? You'll remember this all your life, and such a totally different sailing environment from the SF Bay!