Tradewind sunset

no shoes required

sailorette hands

Pacific Cup send off

The best send off ever! We love you Alex, Melinda, and Peanut!

How you doin'?

Table for Two

Pacific Cup: S/V Firehose

Pacific Cup: repacking Blue Hawaii

Pacific Cup: no wind

Pacific Cup: naptime

Pacific Cup: wheeeeeeee

Pac Cup: best quote

Mark, day 10: "I hate it when this happens. This is how it ALWAYS goes. Just when you start to like something, it tells you that you are in *@#% Ghana!"

(Referring to hand held Garmin that, interestingly, placed the boat in the Gulf of Ghana instead of the Pacific)

You know you are in Hawaii when :

You see a Wall of SPAM

Glorious SPAM

Just in case you don't know how to prepare it, help is on the way!

This is how I feel at 0400 (the death watch)

(Bishop Museum)

Little known fact:

I really wanted to be a forensic entomologist, not a lawyer. These fine (very dead) Coleoptera are at the amazing Bishop Museum in Honolulu.

Kailua Sunrise

RimPac sunrise

The Mokes

Friends

The BEST part of this particular Hawaii race was the new friends we made. Especially Stan and Kerry (Mirage).