Entries for the 2024 Pacific Cup opened at 8 am today, and within four hours fourteen adventurous boats (and their skippers) had signed up. Our growing entry list includes a wide range of boats, both new to the race and returning veterans. Doublehanders and fully crewed, and sizes ranging from 27 to 52 feet!
Will YOU be joining us? Enter here.
Our 2024 Notice of Race is now posted on our documents page. We expect to open entries on March 29. This gives you plenty of time to review the document and decide to enter the FUN race to Hawaii.
July 15, 2024, is scheduled to be the first start for the 2024 Pacific Cup, the FUN race to Hawaii. Slowest boats will start that Monday, with faster boats starting later in the week, is the plan.
Race organizers have to balance a number of factors in picking a start date. We prefer to start around 10 am to 2 pm, on an ebb tide. The date should be late enough that the Pacific High will have had a good chance to form, but not so late that we are into a high chance of tropical storms or somebody's school year. We really want a moon.
This year, the week of July 15 came
John F. Clauser sat in the bar at Berkeley Yacht Club on the evening of October 3, sharing his woes with other Pac Cup veterans and fans. Something about his boom. Also, we all commiserated about the challenges of working with one or more ratings systems.
Business concluded we all went home to a peaceful sleep. John, however, we imagine, was awakened by the traditional 2am call from the Nobel Prize Committee. He had been awarded the prize in Physics for his foundational work in quantum entanglement.
Congratulations, John!
On October 3, at Berkeley Yacht Club, a convivial band of PCYC members met and elected our new board, headed by Hawkeye King, who announced his own plan to race in the 2024 Pac Cup. The 2024 Race will start July 8, 2024.
Elected were:
| Commodore | Hawkeye King |
| Vice Commodore | Bob Hinden |
| Rear Commodore | Cory Schillaci |
| Treasurer | Eric Tecza |
| Secretary | Elizabeth Bishop |
| Staff Commodore | Jim Quanci |
| Director | Kit Wiegman |
| Director | Jeff Duvall |
| Director | Bobbi Tosse |
| Director | Harold |