Race tracking

Last Saturday we loaded our return gear (delivery main sail, fuel jugs, some provisioning) on to the shipping container that the PacCup YC will be sending to Kaneohe.  PacCup has published a link to our Yellow Brick trackers.  You can follow the race here:  https://yb.tl/paccup2022.  Optionally, you can get the Yellow Brick app and then add the race once it's listed (the app works pretty well).

The crew and I started our evening weather and routing reviews (via Zoom, what else).  We'll be doing this every night leading up to the start.  Everyone is getting pretty excited.  One week to go!!

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Hi all - one of our final land-based updates. Start times have been posted and our start is Tuesday, July 5th, at 11:10am. Most equipment has been loaded on the boat and we are finalizing provisioning. The countdown is real now!

Final practice race in the books.

Last Saturday we completed our final practice race, the OYRA crewed Farallones race, before we head off to Hawaii.  While it was a beautiful, mostly clear day, on the ocean - the one thing we could have used more of was wind.  The forecast SW breeze didn't fill in until the middle of the afternoon, and even then it was barely over 10kts.  It took us over 6 hours to make it out the SE Farallon Island, but it was pretty much a straight shot back with a southerly breeze that was a bit too far forward to set the spinnaker.  As the wind bent to go under the Golden Gate bridge we could set the spinnaker at about Pt. Bonita and carry it to the finish line.  There were three of us sailing some pretty high apparent wind angles with our spinnakers to get across the finish line.  We left the dock at 0730 and got back at 2200.  A long day!

You can see the race video here:  https://youtu.be/X--o25DytpA

Next up will be the 2022 Pacific Cup Race.  Our start will be Tuesday, July 5th, at 1110.  We're nailing down all the provisioning to be loaded onto the boat in a few weeks.  I've got a test going with our new cooler (a COSTCO knockoff of a Yeti cooler) to see how long dry ice will last.

Next posts likely from the race!!