2010 Hawaii To San Francisco Cruise Wrap-Up
In late July, Hula Girl departed Oahu for California with a crew of offshore cruising students and yours truly as skipper. With a strange year for the return weather, we […]
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Hula Girl’s Notebook Computer R.I.P.
Hi all, Barry here… Hula Girl’s Notebook PC took a dive off the navigation table last night, so no more emails to/from the boat. Sorry. The team will have to […]
Livin’ the High Life…
Well, for a bit there, it looked like we would miss the whole Pacific High on our way to San Francisco from Hawaii. It looked like we were just going […]
Contrary to what everyone says….
Contrary to what everyone says… we really are nice guys. A couple of days ago we got word that another Santa Cruz 50 heading home from Hawaii had a problem […]
It’s a keeper!
So action this morning right after dawn… The call came from the cockpit that a glass fishing ball float (the ones that were historically used by Japanese fishermen to keep […]
Homeward Bound (… and I can get used to this)
Ok,Ok… I know I still need to get to writing the post race skipper’s wrap-up for the 2010 Pacific Cup… but it was a busy week. First off, there were […]
Uh oh.
Our plan was working…Until it wasn’t. 165 miles to go… We’ll know tomorrow how we did. Enjoying the ride for now on this fast, fun but sweaty, hot and stinky […]
A Nice Day…
Not too much to report from Day 7… 18:30 PDT. A nice roll call of course, and a close dual for second shaping up. We’re very pleased to be in […]
Navigation
2010 Pac Cup, Pro Forma Summary. Start on Starboard, Tack to Port ASAP Port board to Mile Rocks layline, Tack Sail approximately 1220 nautical, Gybe onto Port Sail to Finish […]
Hula Girl is Dancing
Aloha! Kite up at 0900! 1.5 oz 3A to be exact. Hopefully tolerant of our course and 22-25 kt winds. So, the Hula Girl is dancing, on her return to […]
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