Author: Justin

Pacific Cup 2016 – By the Numbers

It always fun to look back at the details of the race. Here are few stats to help summarize the race: 11 days, 8 hours, 25 minutes – a full 2 days faster than 2014. We averaged just over 8 knots for the entire race. That’s 192 nm/day on average. Our best day’s run was

T-Minus 1 Day

Phew!  It’s been a busy 3 days for us.  Actually wish we had one more day to catch our breath before heading out.  Preparations were typical – including a last minute gasket replacement for the fuel tank and a leaking brand new 25 gallon water bladder that required us to rethink how we would store

Nice write-up for the Pac Cup Doublehanders

Below is a link to Scuttlebutt’s introduction of the two Doublehanded divisions for Pac Cup 2016 (that would be us!). Doublehanders Intro  

Practice makes perfect

California Offshore Race Week The past week turned out to be the best preparation for Pacific Cup we could hope for.  It all started with a 1,700 mile drive to get Spadefoot from Austin, TX to Richmond, CA.  Chris also drove 900 miles from Bellingham, WA to Richmond to bring several important items from Shearwater

Toto, we’re not in Austin anymore

Road Trip complete… Spadefoot, Oren, and I spent about 30 hours driving from Austin to Richmond Yacht Club.  1727 miles.  The trip, spread over 3 days, was uneventful except the 20-30mph headwinds we had across most of New Mexico, Arizona, and California.  At times we going 55 mph due to the wind and getting 7.5

600 miles, and we are still in Austin

Over the last 10 days we’ve made 10 trips to Austin Yacht Club.  AYC is 30 miles from our house, so that is 600 miles.  Oof.  That’s a lot of time sitting in the car/truck. The good news is that we absolutely killed it.  Boat hauled, emergency rudder installed, bottom stripped, bottom painted, bottom sanded,

Rudderdundancy…

First, the backstory… Ordered emergency rudder from Competition Composites in Canada.  It shipped UPS and we redirected it to the UPS warehouse in north Austin because it required a signature and we wouldn’t be home to sign.  Rudder arrived at the warehouse Monday morning.  Monday evening we spend an hour poking along in rush hour

When the Sun shines down…

We finished installing the solar panels today.  Two 70W panels and two Genasun GV-10 controllers to charge a 110 amp hour Firefly Oasis carbon foam battery.  We only dropped one small, important, non-standard part for one of the clamps in the water, so for a boat project, we can call that a success! According to

Yeah, it’s got a Hemi!

We’ve had many great weekends for sailing and racing this winter, but this week and next have been reserved for off the water projects to get Spadefoot ready for Pacific Cup in July.  First up, was a big one.  We’ve had Spadefoot for 1.5 years and the boat came with a nice trailer, but up

Orange is the New White

Some things are arriving in the mail and others we are making.  This weekend we can share a little of both.  Our storm jib arrived from Voyager Sails.  I like orange, but in this case, it is a requirement that storm jibs are safety orange, so we didn’t even have a choice.  It is a svelte

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