Nearly two weeks into the 2022 Pacific Cup, the docks are filling up as boats are arriving at Kaneohe Yacht Club at all hour. The bulk of the fleet however - specifically the smaller and earlier starters - is still at sea and lining up their final approaches to Oahu. As the remnants of Hurricane Darby have passed south of the Hawaiian Islands, the boats still at sea are dealing with increasingly rainy and squally weather as well as a large south swell component. In Kaneohe however, seas are calm and the party has started as finishing sailors are trading in their foul weather gear for an aloha
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Shadow II draws 14 feet and decided that, like Pyewacket, they’d rather tie up on Honolulu’s Waikiki Yacht Club. The posh destination has deeper drafts and is much closer to fashionable Waikiki. Pacific Cup’s KYC volunteers and race committee were happy to make the trek to greet them there.
Things did not work out that way.
After a mid-evening finish, Shadow II dipped the finish line and headed out around Mokumanu Island for the run down Oahu’s coast. While this was looking like a wee-hours arrival time, we were still on track to greet them
After a much anticipated wait, Kaneohe Yacht Club saw a flurry of activity Saturday! Beginning just a few minutes after midnight, Alan Lubner’s R/P 55 Zvi came ripping across the finish line to become the second boat to finish the 2022 Pacific Cup. Docking at around 1:45 AM, the Seattle based team became the first Pac Cup finishers to be welcomed into Kaneohe Yacht Club in nearly years (Pyewacket docked in Waikiki due to draft limitations). Zvi’s provisional ranking is 4th place in the Alaska Airlines Division, missing the podium by just an hour.
Just a few hours later, Michael Schoendorf’s
At ten minutes after midnight (local time) Zvi, the RP65, finished! July 16, 2022
Crew:
- Alan Lubner: Skipper
- Andrew Koch: Navigator
- Nigel Barron: Crew
- Mike Stanley: Crew
- Karl Funk: Crew
- Paul Andrepont: Crew
- Scott Smith: Crew
- Patrick Cook: Crew
- Aaron Bronson: Crew
- Justin Ferris: Crew
- Chris Roberts: Crew
- Angus Small: Crew
As Friday’s dawn breaks in Hawaii, just one boat is happily nestled in the barn while the rest of the fleet is lining up their approaches to the islands. The next competitor to finish should be Alan Lubner’s Seattle based R/P 55 Zvi, though they are not slated to arrive until the early hours of Saturday. After Zvi, we should see a handful of boats also cross the finish some time on Saturday night before the floodgate gets thrown wide open on Sunday.
On Thursday morning at approximately 11:05 AM HST, Roy Pat Disney’s turbo Volvo 70 Pyewacket 70 came ripping across the finish line just off