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The Pacific Cup Yacht Club has posted the official Notice of Race and registration is open here for the 2018 Pacific Cup, known as the Fun Race to Hawaii.  2018 is a special year as it marks the 20th running of the race from San Francisco, California to Kaneohe, Hawaii.

The Pacific Cup is a biennial invitational 2,070 nm race from the starkly beautiful coastline of San Francisco, California to the lush, tropical paradise of Kaneohe, Hawaii. The course will start near the St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco Bay and finish outside Kaneohe Bay in Oahu, Hawaii. The Fastest Passage time record

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July 9, 2018, will see the first starts for the 2018 Pacific Cup. This will be the 20th running of our classic race from San Francisco to Oahu.

The Pac Cup Board considered several possible weeks for our race starts, balancing tides (we prefer to start on an outgoing tide), climate trends (too early and there's no Pacific High, too late and there's too many tropical storms), school and race calendars, and moonlight (we prefer to race with some moonlight, but that's not always possible).

With good tides and a most likely positive wind pattern, the Board selected the week of July 9-13 for our

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The PCYC has elected its slate of officers and directors for the 2018 race cycle. Elections took place at the Annual Meeting October 17, 7:30, at Richmond Yacht Club.  Supporters of the race are invited to join PCYC or renew their memberships here.

2018 Pacific Cup Board and Officers

  • Buzz Blackett, Commodore
  • Melinda Erkelens, Vice Commodore
  • Michael Moradzadeh, Rear Commodore
  • Harold Marsh, Treasurer
  • Rebecca Hinden, Secretary

Directors at Large

  • Susan Ruhne
  • Michelle Farabaugh
  • Bobbi Tosse
  • Rowena Carlson
  • Kim Ickler
  • Ian Rogers

In addition, immediate Past Commodore Gary Troxel automatically serves as a director

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Kaneohe, HI, Saturday, July 30, 2016 – The 2016 Pacific Cup will be remembered for the big wind and seas that challenged some racers with broken boats and bodies, but pushed many in the fleet to record breaking passages.

This year’s Pac Cup was wind, wind and more wind. Getting out of Dodge that first day, the missing light wind ridge, north and south – there was good wind everywhere. The strong high north east of Hawaii and an unbroken string of Tropical Depressions created these strong winds across the whole course. And winds means waves. And yes, there were waves.