Pacific Cup Knowledge Base
With each running of the race, we add to our store of information and advice available to our participants and friends. Collected below, we hope that these materials will help you prepare for your crossing.
Collections of Advice
- 2024 Skippers Meeting Files -
- December 2023 POA materials
- Personal Offshore Skills Seminar -
- Doublehanding to Hawaii -
- Slide collections from POA # 2 (Oct 2017) -
- Presentations from October 2015 POA -
- Materials from 2015 POA #1 -
- Ask a Vet -
- One Year after Low Speed Chase -
- Optimize your boat for the trip to Hawaii -
- Outfitting Tips from Surprise -
- Thoughtful Hints by Richard Leevey -
- 100 Things You Can Do For a Better Pac Cup -
Communications
- Starlink Advice -
- Preparing Boat Computer -
- Electrical and Communications advice -
- Cable Loss in VHF: Worksheet -
- Offshore Comms Review 2015 -
- Updated Satphone Tricks for Pacific Ocean Races -
- Benefits of SSB -
- Communications for the offshore racer - SSB radio or Satellite Phone? -
- Communications Offshore -
- SSB/HF Radio Applications in Modern Sailing Vessels -
Getting Back
- Getting your Boat Back from Hawaii: Webinar
- Shipping by Pasha 2018 -
- The Fun Sail Back from Hawaii -
- Sailing Back from Hawaii: Twice the Fun for Half the Price -
- Shipping your Boat -
- DIY Return delivery (Do It Yourself) -
- Getting the Boat Home: Hired Delivery -
- Fishing -
- Shipping home -
- Fuel in Kaneohe Bay -
Planning
- "Town Hall" Discussion of 2022 race logistics -
- Green Boating Tips -
- Preparation Timeline for 2024 -
- Boat Optimization -
- Pac Cup Expenses
- Where to Dock Your Out-Of-Town Boat in SF Bay -
- Spares and Repairs Underway -
- Preparing for an Offshore Race, Introduction -
- Getting Organized -
- Energy Management -
Safety Gear
- How to Survive your Inspection -
- Safety at Sea Seminar Handouts
- Slides from March 5 Safety at Sea Seminar -
- Your Liferaft! At your service -
- Preparing for an Offshore Race, OSR Sections 1 and 2 -
- Preparing for an Offshore Race, OSR Section 3 -
- Preparing for an Offshore Race, Introduction -
- Preparing for an Offshore Race, OSR Sections 5 and 6 and Appendices -
- Preparing for an Offshore Race, OSR Section 4 -
Sails
- Sail Selection and Repair -
- Sailing Under Control as the Wind Increases -
- Build a Better Offshore Inventory -
- Sail Selection for the Pac Cup -
- Symmetric or Asymmetric Spinnakers to Hawaii -
- Sail Inventory Suggestions for San Francisco to Hawai’i Passage -
- Sail Repair Suggestions, by Synthia Petroka -
- Spinnakers by Kame Richards -
- Pacific Cup Sail Selection -
Weather
- Paul Kamen's 2020 Weather Presentation -
- Presentation Materials from POA 5 -
- Peter Isler's Weather Links -
- Avoiding Danger Area in Cyclones and Hurricanes -
- Weather Notes from Bill Erkelens -
- Weather, Routing, and Navigation -
- Weather Forecasting and Waves -
- Weather Models - Fine Tactics -
- Weather and Tactics -
- Waves and Safety Near Land -
- Tsunami Marine Debris -
- Weather Resources -
- Max Ebb on Squalls -
- Offshore weather resources, in a nutshell -
- Stan Honey's Weather Advice -