Starting to track and review weather for the Port Townsend start. Once we round Point Willson do we point the bow at Victoria and go? Or stay close to the Peninsula till Dungeness Bay then cross at a more direct angle. Prevailing winds will oppose ebb tide. Then there is the commercial shipping lanes to be crossed. Or do they close the Strait to through traffic to allow us safe passage.

I have been training here in San Francisco Bay under a variety of conditions but do not know what to expect for the R2AK. Any veterans of the previous races here?