Shearwater Return Trip – Tracker
July 25, 2014
Shearwater left Kaneohe Bay yesterday afternoon headed up to the Pacific Northwest. There is a YellowBrick Tracker onboard and in theory we can all follow along with Bill & Darlene as they sail to the PNW. Unfortunately, the YellowBrick does not seem to be working. The Race Committee is working with YellowBrick to see if
Sat Phone Test Post
July 7, 2014
Follow us during the race!
July 7, 2014
We are just a little over 24 hours from our start at 12:10pm (Pacific time) on Tuesday. A few boats started yesterday. Sixteen boats start today, eighteen start on Tuesday, and then the fastest crewed boats start Thursday and Friday. There will be 55 boats in all. We will try to make daily blog updates to svshearwater.com,
A last minute project – SOS rudder install
July 6, 2014
We’ve been busy these past few days here at the Richmond Yacht Club, working on list items and meeting other sailors. Last week, Justin arrived ahead of me and started working on the mounting brackets for the Scanmar SOS rudder that we had bought used from a sailing friend he knew online. Although we were originally
A stylin’ official number
June 29, 2014
In the past few months, we’ve been making our way through our own project lists and reconciling them with requirements for Pacific Cup. One of the items that we discovered we were lacking was the correct USCG official number permanently affixed to our boat. So, we called on the skills of my dad and his wife
Memorial Day is Inspection Day
May 30, 2014
A boatyard in San Francisco
May 28, 2014
…and finally, Shearwater arrived safe and sound (late in April). There were no issues during her transport, but the weather gods tried us while we worked to get her back into the water. We were subjected to one torrential downpour after another that kept us soaked and freezing cold. We managed, though, helped by the workers
First ones here! First ones here.
April 30, 2014
On the road again…
April 22, 2014
Shearwater was loaded on a truck today (US Boat Haulers), bound for San Francisco Bay. With luck she will be in Richmond by Friday and get her first taste of the Pacific Ocean. Preparing for the transport went amazingly well. On Thursday we started prepping the rig for removal. Boom off and halyards pulled back