I told him I'd need to ask around and see what people thought. Just about all the distance racers I know are in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. Sounds like the ORCA races are one day point-to-point events. As you pointed out, Mary, there are parts of California's coastline that would be a problem in an emergency... for the same reason, I think the old Hogsbreath event that ran up the west coast of Florida had issues once upon a time, IIRC.