PACIFIC CUP 2022 PREVIEW 2022 PACIFIC CUP ENTRIES Yacht FULLY CREWED Alternate Reality Athena Azure Blue Cali Cassiopeia Chance City Lights Concussion Dogma Double Espresso Duende Escape Artist Free Bowl of Soup Freja Freyja Galatea Hamachi Hokulani J/World's Cazan J/World's Hula Girl Kahoots Kahuna Kynntana Limitless Lodos Mako Mist Pearl Perplexity Pyewacket 70 Rage Rägeboge Rufless Sacagawea Shadow II Spindrift V Such Fast Surprise The Boss Total Eclipse Velvet Hammer Vera Cruz Westerly WildCard Wizard Zvi
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Express 27 Beneteau First 45 Cal 40 Riptide 41 Islander 36 Islander 36 Centurion 42 SC52 Olson 30 Olson 40 Express 34 Cal 40 J/105 J/105 Aerodyne 43 Cal 35 MkII Islander 35 J/125 J/120 DK46 SC50 Andrews 43 1D35 Freedom 38 Express 37 J/111 Sydney 38 TP52 Synergy 1000 Express 37 Volvo 70 Wylie 70 Hallberg-Rassy 38 J/125 Jeanneau 349 TP52 Express 37 1D35 Schumacher 46 J/35 Kalik 40 J/125 Beneteau First 40 SC70 SC37 Volvo Open 70 R/P 55
Darrell Jensen David Ryan Rodney Pimentel Michael Schoendorf Kerry Scott Kit Wiegman Mark Lowry Aaron Wangenheim Nick Schmidt Mike Little Jason Lauer Giuseppe Lavelle Dana Sibilla Eric Hopper/Douglas Schenk Jonathan Cruise George Scott David Herring Jason Andrews Tracy Rogers David Gates Wayne Zittel Greg Mitchell Bob Stephenson/John Higham Carliane Johnson Shawn Ivie Tolga Cizik Jason Vannice Stevan Johnson Eric Thomas John Wilkerson Roy Disney David Raney Heinz Baumann Rufus Sjoberg Ryan Floyd Peter McCarthy Andy Schwenk David Garman Bob Hinden Chad Stenwich Roger Wise Zachery Anderson Michael Johnson Stuart Dahlgren Nick Grebe Peter Askew Alan Lubner
Seattle, WA Santa Cruz Alameda Milwaukee, WI Vallejo Alameda San Francisco San Francisco San Francisco San Francisco Santa Cruz Alameda Portland, OR Portland, OR Seattle, WA San Francisco Minneapolis, MN Seattle, WA Redwood City San Diego San Francisco San Francisco Kaneohe Bay, HI Montara Los Angeles Seattle, WA Olympia, WA Shilshole Bay, WA Duluth, MN Port Madison, WA San Diego Portland, OR Basel, Switzerland Richmond San Francisco West Vancouver, BC San Francisco Seattle, WA Alameda Brownsville, WA Alameda San Francisco San Francisco Victoria, BC Benicia Wilmington, MA Mercer Island, WA
DOUBLEHANDED Accelerando Blue Moon CruzSea Baby Dash Eskoriñ Foamy Hang 20 'io Moonshine Puffin Raku Surprise! Twelve-Winded Sky Wolfpack Yeti
Moore 24 Sun Odyssey 52.2 Beneteau 10R J/99 Pogo 30 Moore 24 Express 27 Antrim 27C Dogpatch 26 Moore 24 J/111 Express 38-1 Hanse 342 Donovan 30 Express 27
Erica Mattson Siegel/Robin Jeffers Russ Johnson/Janell Clark Amanda & Brian Turner Stephanie Arnold/Ken Machtley Fred Bouju/Erwan Menard Bill & Melinda Erkelens Lori Tewksbury/Catherine Meyer Buzz Blackett/Jim Antrim M. Klimaschewski/D. Rogers Kelly Gregory/Patrick Haesloop Christina & Justin Wolfe Robert Johnston/David Morris Mark Jordan/Randy Leasure Andrew Hamilton/Steve Kleha Adam Mazurkiewicz/Ron Snetsinger
Richmond San Francisco Santa Cruz Orcas Island, WA Richmond Richmond Richmond Richmond Seattle, WA Sausalito Orcas Island, WA San Francisco San Francisco Richmond Richmond
CRUISER Circe Hullabaloo Loki Solis
Freedom 40/40 Catalina 425 X-49 Hans Christian
Tony Bourque Michael Armstrong John Sancho/Rudi Boekamp Darshaun Nadeau
Richmond San Francisco San Francisco Fort Bragg
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he huge and diverse fleet of boats includes at least one example of many popular West Coast classics, including a Santa Cruz 50, Santa Cruz 52, Olson 40, Olson 30, Express 34 and more. There's also a number of sporty Beneteaus and other production cruisers that could prove to be very competitive. David Ryan's Beneteau First 45 Athena is sailing with Ashley Perrin and Gilles Combrisson as watch captains and should be well sailed. Brian Turner's Beneteau First 10R CruzSea Baby will sail doublehanded. Michael Johnson's Beneteau First 40 Vera Cruz is back for another Pac Cup and includes Michael's wife Vera and daughter Kira.
'Pyewacket 70' could have a shot at breaking 'Rio100's' course record. Carliane Johnson's Freedom 38 Kynntana will sail with an all-female crew. Russ Johnson and Janell Clark are back for the Pac Cup with their beautiful blue Jeanneau 52.2 Blue Moon, but they've left their crew on the dock this time and will go doublehanded. Bob and Maryann Hinden's Schumacher 46 Surprise has an impressively deep crew of Bay Area ringers aboard, including daughter Rebecca, who will handle navigational duties. Both boats named Surprise could prove to be exactly that should they get their conditions and start on the right day. Bob Stephenson's Kaneohe, Oahubased 1D35 Kahuna has been sailing well in Oahu and placed second in their division in the Spinnaker Cup.
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ith nearly 70 boats still planning to take to the start the week of July 4-8, stay tuned to Latitude 38 for more updates before, during and after the race. Also, make sure to check the race's website at www.pacificcup.org, their Facebook page and their Instagram account, @paccuprace, for more information and for how to follow along. For the first time in the history of the race, the Pacific Cup's media team is planning to broadcast the starts and finishes of the race live on their social media pages and/or YouTube channel. With a huge, interesting fleet of boats and a few hundred sailors who have spent too much time in isolation and can't wait to go for a good sail and have a few mai tais afterward, the 2022 Pac Cup should prove to be worth the wait. — ronnie simpson