San Diego to Santa Barbara: the coastal stopovers

13 places · Southern California

Two hundred miles of coast with a harbour every 25: San Diego and its La Playa and Glorietta Bay anchorages, Mission Bay, Oceanside, Dana Point, Newport Harbor, Long Beach and San Pedro, Marina del Rey, Paradise Cove at Malibu, Channel Islands Harbor and Santa Barbara. North-west sea breeze in the afternoon, morning fog from May to July, and free anchoring is scarce: book guest slips.

1. Roman Eugeniusz
   1Anchorage· US·5.0

   A1 ‘La playa’ anchorage

   Designated weekend anchorage in the Shelter Island Yacht Basin, San Diego Bay, between San Diego and Southwestern Yacht Clubs.

   32.7158, -117.2316See on the chart →
2. 2Anchorage· US·5.0

   Glorietta Bay

   Managed anchorage in a small bay on the east side of San Diego Bay, off Coronado, southern California.

   • Water

   32.6783, -117.1691See on the chart →
3. Sergei Gussev
   3Harbour· San Diego, US·5.0

   San Diego Yacht Club

   Members' yacht club with its own marina on Shelter Island, in San Diego Bay, southern California.

   32.7178, -117.2281See on the chart →
4. Tony Webster
   4Harbour· San Diego, US

   Mission Bay Yacht Club

   Yacht club on El Carmel Point in Mission Bay, San Diego, founded in 1927 and home to one of the largest junior sailing programmes on the west coast.

   32.7790, -117.2471See on the chart →
5. Matt Howard thematthoward
   5Harbour· US·5.0

   Oceanside Yacht Club

   Yacht club founded in 1963 at 1950 North Harbor Drive within Oceanside Harbor, on the Southern California coast.

   33.2110, -117.3957See on the chart →
6. Sergei Gussev
   6Anchorage· US·5.0

   Dana Cove

   Designated anchorage in the west basin of Dana Point Harbor, on the Orange County coast of California.

   33.4609, -117.7057See on the chart →
7. Sergei Gussev
   7Harbour· Newport Beach, US

   Newport Beach Yacht Club

   Members-only yacht club at 1099 Bayside Drive in Newport Harbour, sharing the waterfront site with Villa Cove Marina, opposite Balboa Island.

   33.6096, -117.8896See on the chart →
8. 8Harbour· Long Beach, US

   Long Beach

   Public marina in downtown Long Beach, California, between Shoreline Village and the Aquarium of the Pacific.

   33.7612, -118.1915See on the chart →
9. Downtowngal
   9Harbour· Los Angeles, US

   San Pedro Yacht Club

   Member yacht club at Berth 202 in the California Yacht Marina, on the Wilmington shore of Los Angeles Harbor in California.

   33.7670, -118.2518See on the chart →
10. 10Harbour· Marina Del Rey, US

    Marina Del Rey

    Man-made small-craft harbour on the coast of Los Angeles County, California, between Venice Beach and Playa del Rey, completed in 1965.

    33.9773, -118.4482See on the chart →
11. manfred matticka
    11Anchorage· US·5.0

    Paradise cove Malibu

    Anchorage in a small cove below Point Dume on the Malibu coast, sand bottom with patches of kelp, sheltered from N to NW winds.

    34.0175, -118.7847See on the chart →
12. 12Anchorage· US

    Santa Barbara

    Open roadstead off the Santa Barbara waterfront in California, anchoring on a sand bottom east of the harbour.

    34.4145, -119.8260See on the chart →
13. Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA
    13Harbour· Ventura, US

    Ventura Yacht Club

    Yacht club marina of 91 berths on the west side of Ventura Harbor, between the harbour village and the Channel Islands National Park headquarters.

    34.2450, -119.2648See on the chart →

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