Month: July 2014

Pacific Cup – By the Numbers

July 28, 2014

I think we’ll probably have one or two more posts on our Pac Cup experience (a video and a few pictures), so bear with us on the updates…but thought there might be some interest in the numbers: Diesel taken = 27 gallons, and we finished with ~15 gallons as we ran the engine 2 hours/day

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Pacific Cup – Awards

July 28, 2014

We were surprised, but super happy to receive the “Best First Passage” Award for Pacific Cup 2014.  It is a testament to the depth of experience of the field as we finished in middle of the fleet at best.

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Shearwater Tracking – Friends of Bill & Darlene

July 26, 2014

For those of you interested in following Shearwater and who know Bill & Darlene, the YellowBrick Tracker onboard is On and functioning, however, the Status was turned off prior to handover to us, so the unit is not tracking.  This can be easily fixed by Bill or Darlene onboard, once they are aware of it.

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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

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Pacific Cup – Finish and the Continuing Whirlwind…

July 24, 2014

Aloha! It seems like it might have been a bit easier to keep up on blog updates out in the middle of the Pacific!  We’ve been in Hawaii almost 2 days now and have hardly had a chance to send a note that yes, we did indeed finish! The amazing Leslie from Rockskipper took some photos

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Pacific Cup Day 13 Recap – Curses and Mai-Tai’s

July 21, 2014

The past twelve hours have probably been the most trying for us this entire race – we’ve had exceptionally poor luck trying to get a kite up to get the boat moving fast. Hindsight 20/20, we should have just left the jib up as we did late last night and flew it into the morning,

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Pacific Cup Day 12 Recap – Driver’s Ed

July 20, 2014

The last 24 hours have been interesting. Good, but interesting. Actually, nothing special has happened. No issues. We’ve been focussed more on sailing fast and fast it has been. We started doing some calculations yesterday and realized we had a chance of finishing before nightfall tomorrow. We also did some math and realized we still

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Pacific Cup Day 11 – Big Blue Ocean

July 19, 2014

The last 24 hours have been so nice. Bright blue sky, sunshine, white puffy clouds, beautiful blue water, organized swells, and mostly 15-20 knots. We’ve been able to fly the A2 spinnaker and for the most part we’ve been moving well, except the early morning yesterday when we were parked behind a squall, then early

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Pacific Cup Day 10 Recap – Moonwalking and Squalls

July 18, 2014

We’re slowly regaining some of the much needed rest that we’ve been missing the past few days, which helps moods – the start of last night was nearly perfect, but we’ve decided that the breeze turns on a turbo switch at happy hour, and then in the wee hours of the morning. The turbo switch

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Pacific Cup Day 9 – Position Correction

July 17, 2014

Our position in the daily report today is wrong. The longitude should be 14459, about 12 miles west of what showed up on the report. The breeze has come down. Happy.

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