Dorada
42' flybridge motor yacht
16 kn10 guests26 gph
The Avalon boat. Sixteen knots all day, shade on the bridge, a swim step the harbor seals have opinions about.
$340.00 / hr · exact, not “from”
A FICTIONAL CHARTER COMPANY. A DESIGN DEMO.
Newport Harbor · Catalina Island
Twenty-six miles is not a mood. It's a distance — and a distance is arithmetic.
A charter boat out of Newport Harbor that prints its itinerary to the minute and its total to the dollar, before you step aboard.
Jetty to jetty, great-circle: 26.7 nm to Avalon · 32.7 nm to Two Harbors · sunset tonight 7:06 PM
The fleet
Four boats, four honest speeds.
Every card prints the number the itinerary is computed from — cruise speed — and the number the ledger is computed from — the hourly. No boat on this page has a star rating, because stars are bought and knots are measured.
Garibaldi
34' express cruiser
22 kn8 guests22 gph
The fast crossing. Twenty-two knots turns the channel into an hour and a quarter — you pay for it at the fuel dock, and the ledger says exactly how much.
$265.00 / hr · exact, not “from”
Bellwether
44' sailing catamaran
8 kn12 guests5 gph
The slow way, on purpose. Eight knots under power, better when the wind fills in — whether it does is the sea's call, which is why that promise is printed in blue.
$295.00 / hr · exact, not “from”
fuel $0.00 — it plugs into a wallGlowworm
21' Duffy electric
5 kn10 guestselectric
The harbor at five knots, you at the wheel, fuel line reading $0.00 because it plugs into a wall. It does not go to Catalina: 26.7 nautical miles at five knots is five hours twenty minutes each way, and that arithmetic is the whole reason this note exists.
$115.00 / hr · exact, not “from”
The house signature
The crossing, to the minute and to the dollar.
Pick the trip, the boat, and when you cast off. The left sheet is the clock — computed from the distance and the boat’s real cruise speed, held against tonight’s actual sunset. The right sheet is the money — every line the dock will ever ask of you, printed before you give anyone your name.
The trip
The boat
Glowworm sits this one out: 26.7 nautical miles at 5 knots is 5 hr 20 min each way. Its ocean is the harbor.
Cast off
The minutes · September 9
Cast off, slip D-14lines in, fenders up9:00 AM
Clear the jetty9:15 AM
The crossing out26.7 nm at 16 knots1 hr 40 min
Pick up the mooring, Avalon10:55 AM
Ashore3 hr — it's your island until1:55 PM
Back in the slip3:50 PM
Sunset over the channel7:06 PM
Last safe cast-off from Avalonsunset minus the crossing, minus 30 minutes in hand4:41 PM
This schedule leaves Avalon 166 minutes ahead of the safe line. The margin is yours to spend ashore — or keep.
The dollars · nothing waiting at the dock
Dorada7 hr dock-to-dock × $340.00/hr$2,380.00
Captain, USCG-licensed7 hr × $60.00/hr$420.00
Fuel, at the posted price≈ 100 gal · 3 hr 50 min engine time × 26 gph × $6.40 (posted August 2026)$638.56
Turnaround cleansalt off, deck done, next guests none the wiser$150.00
Crew gratuity, suggested 15%printed here so it isn't sprung at the cleat — yours to change$420.00
THE NUMBER$4,008.56
Fictional prices on a fictional boat — the mechanism is what’s for sale. A real operator plugging in real rates gets the same honesty for free.
Where we go
The island, both ends of it. The coast, all of it.
Distances are great-circle, computed from chart coordinates and rounded to a tenth — jetty to jetty, not marketing to marketing. The crossing time is that number divided by your boat’s speed. There is no other math.
Avalon26.7 nm · 1 hr 40 min at 16 kn · 1 hr 13 min at 22 kn
Two Harbors32.7 nm · 2 hr 3 min at 16 kn · 4 hr 5 min at 8 kn
The coast — Crystal Cove, the pier lineno crossing · the whales don’t check tickets
Inside the jetty — the harbor itselffive knots, no wake, Glowworm’s whole ocean
What the channel keeps
The calendar is real. The appointments aren’t.
Anything printed in this blue is the sea’s decision, not ours — that’s the rule everywhere on this page. Here is what the San Pedro Channel actually keeps to, checkable against any whale-watch log in the county.
Gray whalesDecember – April
southbound to Baja, northbound with calves
Blue whalesJune – October
krill runs off the shelf edge
Humpbacksspring & fall
passing through, no appointments kept
Common dolphinsmost days, all year
pods in the hundreds; still not a promise
The rules of the house
What Soundline won’t sell you.
No star ratings, no testimonials.
A fictional boat has no customers, so this page shows none — and neither should a real one show stars it bought. What we can show you is the arithmetic: the itinerary, the burn, the total. Those don't need five stars to be true.
We don't sell guaranteed sightings.
Gray whales pass December through April, blues June through October, dolphins most days — that's the calendar, and it's printed below. Whether they surface next to you is the sea's business. Anyone who guarantees wildlife is selling you the aquarium.
The weather cancels, you don't pay.
If the captain calls the crossing off for wind or swell, the trip moves or the money comes back — all of it. A schedule kept against the sea's advice isn't service, it's a liability with a brochure.
No “from” prices.
“From $340” is the first line of a bill you haven't seen. The planner below prints the whole bill — boat, captain, fuel at the posted dock price, cleaning, and the gratuity line nobody warns you about — before you give anyone your name.
The credential
Every trip runs under a licensed master.
Six passengers or more for hire requires a USCG Master's credential, not a confident friend with a boat. Soundline's captain holds licence #000000 — zeroed, because this company is fictional. A real captain's credential can be verified with the Coast Guard, and a real operator should invite you to do it.
USCG Master 100 GT · Licence #000000Verify a mariner's credential — National Maritime Center
