@hazardwarning He was hoping to find something closer to home (San Diego is at least a three-hour drive each way), but he wasn't finding anything locally, so I advised him to expand his radius. Hoping it was fruitful advice.
There are a lot of other boats available if you go farther north, to Santa Cruz or San Francisco, but the problem is that north of Point Conception, ocean conditions turn much more stormy and challenging to sail in, since those are west-facing shorelines instead of south-facing or southwest-facing like we have down here (and we have the additional benefit locally of being sheltered by offshore islands).