08:00
Long Beach
Step aboard
No lines, no crowds: just your group and the crew, and the harbor still waking up.
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Experiences
A private day, planned around you.
Calm coves, clear water, no crowds. Here's how a day on the water tends to unfold, though yours bends wherever you like.
09:30
The crossing
An easy channel run
A smooth run across the channel. Coffee in hand, the island coastline rising ahead.
11:00
Quiet coves
Anchor in clear water
Drop into a sheltered cove. Swim, snorkel, or do nothing at all: the day is yours.
13:00
On the water
Lunch at anchor
A relaxed meal on deck, the island a few hundred yards off the bow.
16:00
Golden hour
The unhurried return
Catalina lit warm behind you, the channel calm, the day in no rush to end.
A captain who knows every cove.
Avalon Bay
The classic harbor: color and calm.
Lover's Cove
Protected, clear, made for snorkeling.
Emerald Bay
Bright water on the island's quiet end.
Two Harbors
Wild and uncrowded across the isthmus.
Little Harbor
A sheltered stop few boats reach.
Cat Harbor
Glass-calm water on the leeward shore.
Goat Harbor
A secluded crescent beach, all to yourselves.
Italian Gardens
Kelp forests and bright, swim-clear water.
On the water
Warm, candid, unhurried.
Your day · your boat · your Catalina