Friends who have made the passage from Hawaii to San Francisco told me that the last 500 miles of the trip are the hardest. This seems to be true in our case as well. Our weather and routing advisor alerted us to the fact that there is a gale force weather event predicted for northern California for next week, right around the time we had planned to arrive.

Divert. Dangerous seas on the beam starting Thursday thru Sunday. Go north of system to Portland. Wait for a window.