Pac Cup Registration Open

The Pacific Cup Yacht Club has posted the official Notice of Race and registration is open for the 2018 Pacific Cup. Next year marks the 20th running of the race from San Francisco to Kaneohe, Hawaii.

The Pacific Cup is a biennial invitational 2,070-mile race from the starkly beautiful coastline of San Francisco to the lush, tropical paradise of Kaneohe. The course will start near the St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco Bay and finish outside Kaneohe Bay in Oahu. The Fastest Passage time record for the race was set in 2016 by Rio100 (5:02:41:13). The 2016 Overall Winner was the doublehanded Moore 24 ¡Mas! which completed the race in 10:14:30:22.

PCYC Commodore Buzz Blackett, a veteran of many Pacific Cups, says “We are pleased to open the 2018 Pacific Cup to entries almost 18 months before the event. We hope this early announcement will help skippers and crews to begin planning their preparation and to submit their entries in plenty of time to assure them a place on the starting line. We encourage all interested sailors to visit pacificcup.org and look for the upcoming announcement of our first Pacific Offshore Academy seminar this spring.”

Pat Lowther, PCYC’s Safety at Sea committee chair says, “We offer the best training around with our seminars and Pacific Offshore Academy. We actually teach folks how to cross an ocean. There is great support from veteran racers for the first timers.”

Starting guns will sound the week of July 9-13, 2018. The Pacific Cup is limited to 70 boats, so signing up early is the key to knowing you are racing and can begin preparations.