We did finish the race and arrived in beautiful Kaneohe Bay on the Island of Oahu Hawaii. It was quite a trip, a lot harder than any of the other Pacific Cup races I have done. We ended up with a lot less working spinnakers than when we started, but we did finish flying a spinnaker. It was quite an adventure.

It was a fast race, we finished about a day faster than when we did it on Surprise in 2014. About 9 days and 4 hours. We finished 4th in our Division and 23rd overall. This race had a lot of wind and unlike the other Pac Cups I have done, the smaller boats that started early did very well. We weren't the only boat who tore a number of spinnakers, or worse.

Just when we thought the adventure was over after crossing the finish line and taking down the spinnaker, we had another adventure. Actually two. The first was that due to the approach remnants of tropical storm Darby, instead of going to the dock at KYC and receiving lei's and Mai Tai's, we had to anchor out. The second adventure was that when I started the engine, the starter didn't disengage, and nearly caught the engine on fire. It made a lot of smoke, destroyed the starter, and melted a lot of wires on the engine. This mean we couldn't motor in. Scott Owens did a great job of sailing her in and we dropped anchor under sail. The escort boat told us we did better than a lot of other boats under power!

In the two weeks since we arrive, we have been working very hard to get the damage repaired and getting Surprise ready for the return trip. The engine is now working and we are ready to return to San Francisco tomorrow. Many thanks to Jim Grossberg who did much of the work to repair the engine. He is very highly recommended!

Becca, Chris Parkman, and I plan to leave on Monday August 8th and expect it to take about two weeks. I will plan to do daily reports on the blog, and hopefully the trip won't be too much of an adventure. You can track us here and on the Pac Cup site (looks at Return tracks.