Pacific Cup race organizers are happy to report that Andy Schwenk (57, Point Richmond, CA) has been brought safely to land by a combination of Coast Guard, Air Force, commercial shipping, and assistance from a fellow yacht. A rapidly-spreading infection required the action.
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Nearly three weeks since our bon voyage party and Skippers’ briefing at Richmond Yacht Club, we prepare to say our goodbyes and go our separate ways. Whether as a racer, a volunteer at KYC, a PCYC race official, or the Media Guy behind this keyboard it’s been a heck of a journey. Now it’s time to wrap up the 21st edition of this great yacht race. Clean up after yourself on the way out, shut off the lights when you’re done, and we’ll see you all in a couple of years.
But first, the awards!!! This evening at Kaneohe Yacht Club will be a very special one for all of us. The stories, the photos
With a large and diverse fleet of boats, coming up with a way to identify the “winner” is a significant challenge.
First, we must abandon any hope of being perfect or even, in retrospect, the “best” way to go. What we seek is a method that is objectively unbiased, reasonably transparent, and likely to produce a result that rewards skillful choices and execution in the race.
Pacific Cup uses a “time-on-time” scoring system based on Offshore Racing Rule ratings for faster boats and PHRF ratings for slower boats. Let’s break that down.
“Time-on-time” has gained popularity over the last decade
Most of us are moving a bit slower today after yesterday’s monumental push. With big waves and big breeze pushing competitors to Kaneohe at a rapid clip, many boats expected to finish on Tuesday ended up finishing on Monday. There was constant activity on the docks and along KYC’s famous bulkhead.
While the boats finishing deserve a ton of credit, today this writer wishes to shine a light on the literally hundreds of volunteers who make this race happen. With the Communications Committee taking 100 mile and 25 mile check-ins and then translating that into a finish ETA, the escort boat committee
We have officially reached ‘arrival day’. After a slow and challenging start to this marathon ocean race, boats are coming in around the clock, and Kaneohe Yacht Club is filling up quickly. With the remnants of Hurricane Darby still affecting local weather conditions, weather has been breezy, rainy, and squally for our Sunday and Monday arrivals. As a historically large south swell pounded Hawaii’s south facing shores, competitors are coming in with adrenaline-enhanced stories of surfing down the biggest and steepest seas of their lives. The PCYC race committee, various KYC volunteer