Day 1 Recap – We’re Off
Ti leaves to see us to Hawaii
Sat Phone Test Post
Cookies and competition (oh wow)
Earlier today, we received a very special delivery. Wayne and Linda on the Nordic Tug “Buoy Toy” were friendly neighbors to us out on E-dock here at Richmond Yacht Club for the past 2 months. We were the lucky recipients of the most amazing gift from them…24 homemade chocolate chip and walnut cookies. The squeeze
Follow us during the race!
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
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
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
Golden Gate fly by!
Memorial Day is Inspection Day
A boatyard in San Francisco
…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