if he got out far enough to pick up the winds circulating around the Pacific High it would take him in that direction. That being said, I would have thought that a 28 foot boat with no one at the helm just out of San Diego would have piled up on the Pacific coast of Baja before he ever got far enough out to get past the coastal prevailing winds. I'm sure the CG could have modeled his projected course if they only had a place to start from. With his 9 days of travel time, they didn't have that "from" spot.