Tag: Pacific Cup

Ti leaves to see us to Hawaii

July 8, 2014

We attached the Ti leaves to the bow today – we received them in our skipper’s bag and were told that they are from Hawaii, and they’ll find their way home.  It’s a nice thought. I did some more looking since I was interested in finding out more about the plant – they’re not technically

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Cookies and competition (oh wow)

July 7, 2014

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

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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,

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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

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Golden Gate fly by!

May 31, 2014

Over Memorial Day Weekend we went for a leisurely sail out to El Pacifico.  The idea was to do some downwind practice with the autopilot in some swells.  We got in some good, fast rides, but not exactly what we expected.  We made a short video of the tour of the Bay and beyond. Video

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Memorial Day is Inspection Day

May 30, 2014

Straight off a flight back from 12 days in Europe for work we spent the long weekend on Shearwater getting ready for Pac Cup.  One of the big activities was going up the mast to fix a wonky deck light, tape up the spreader tips better, tape over the steaming light a little to make

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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

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Pacific Cup Academy #3

January 30, 2014

This past weekend Chris & I spent some time in the SF Bay area.  Our primary reason for being there was the Pacific Cup Academy taking place at Richmond Yacht Club.  We also secured moorage for the 2 months leading up to Pac Cup at the host Richmond Yacht Club (thanks Bob Johnston for the

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Pacific Cup 2014 – The Fun Race to Hawaii

December 17, 2012

For those that know what it means, the name probably gives it away.  For those that don’t know, Pacific Cup is a biannual race from San Francisco to Hawaii (Oahu).  I’ve been dreaming about this race for more than 20 years.  In fact, when Chris & I met, I had just bought a boat, a

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