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Heads Up to Solo TransPac’ers

By Richard | July 1, 2016 | San Francisco Bay to Hawaii |
Charts, radar, GPS and depthsounders are all great for navigating, but sometimes there is nothing so helpful as a shot from a drone.

© 2016 Ryan De Seixas

An excellent fleet of 23 singlehanded sailors will race to Hawaii starting tomorrow, Saturday, July 2, from Corinthian Yacht Club in Tiburon. It will be the 20th running of the Singlehanded TransPac. The boats are as small as two 21-ft Minis and as large as Michael Jefferson’s Garcia Passoa 47 Mouton Noir.

The finish line will be off beautiful Hanalei Bay, Kauai. Which means if any of the entrants find themselves anywhere in the photo above at the end of the race, they’re in the wrong place. That’s because the photo is of Kaneohe YC on the island of Oahu, the finish for the Pacific Cup, which starts from San Francisco the week of July 11.

The breathtaking photo was taken from a drone video about the entire island of Oahu by Ryan De Seixas. While Hawaii has never been in the running as our favorite place in the world, we think it’s right up there with the most beautiful places we’ve ever been.

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