Sailors for the Sea Clean Regattas

The 2022 Pacific Cup marks the launch of our official Pacific Cup Environmental Partnership program. This year, we are working with four leading marine conservation non-profits to lessen our environmental impact, helping to raise awareness about how individual sailors can make a difference on a day-to-day basis and promote the efforts of those working hard to protect the oceans and marine habitats that we love.

Sailors for the Sea Powered by Oceana, is the leading ocean conservation organization uniting sailors and boaters around the world to work together to protect and restore the world’s oceans. In 2006, Sailors for the Sea launched their Clean Regattas program, the world’s leading sustainability certification for any water-based sailing or boating event, which supplies a framework of twenty best practices for organizers to run a more sustainable event, such as reducing single-use plastics, protecting known marine habitats, and employing clean race technology. Pacific Cup is vying for Gold-standard Clean Regatta certification, which is one of the highest-level certifications based on level of impact and difficulty to implement. This achievement is particularly significant given the Pacific Cup’s decentralized venue organization across yacht clubs and U.S. states. Some of the efforts we have made include the reduction of single-use plastics, eliminating straws at our venues, promoting water refill stations at all ports of departure and arrival, and accepting tamper-proof seals for emergency-use water to enable that these containers can be reused.

It is our hope our efforts will inspire race organizers at other events across the Bay and beyond to adopt some of the best practices we have been able to enact with the Pacific Cup. Additionally, we encourage sailors to become members of Sailors for the Sea’s Green Boating program, which provides resources and knowledge so individual boaters can take action on a day-to-day basis to protect our oceans for future generations.

Rounding out our Environmental Partner program are three non-profits, the Ocean Voyages Institute, The Marine Mammal

Fishing nets with GPS trackers from the Ocean Voyages Institute

Center, and the International Bird Rescue. We encourage you to visit their websites to learn more about how these organizations are cleaning up our oceans and working hard to protect sensitive marine animals.

You can also learn more about what best practices to adopt on an individual basis to protect the oceans that we love on the Pacific Cup website and across our social channels on YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook where we have posted interviews, links to these organizations, and more.

Kaneohe Yacht Club Richmond Yacht Club

Susie Jannuzzi Commodore Kaneohe Yacht Club

Aloha fellow sailing enthusiasts!

Our wait is over and the Pacific Cup 2022 race is a go! You can find no happier people to welcome you than all your friends at Kaneohe Yacht Club, your home away from home! We know that your journey will be taxing, following months (or years) of drilling and exercising, and fine tuning your boat and readying your crew to complete this crossing. However, once across the Pacific, you will find paradise—KYC—at the end of your PACCUP rainbow. Our escort teams will be afloat, ready to guide you into our safe moorings upon your arrival.

And what a stay this will be! You will find plenty around the club grounds to enjoy, including adult and kiddie pools, two racquet sport courts, and our excellent galley and bar. Please extend our aloha to include those of your family and friends who wish to travel and join us in welcoming you and your crew to Hawaii. While I am sure our hospitality is the best around, you are still urged to venture out to sample all the 50th state offers. Just ask and we will point you toward attractions on the water, alongside our beautiful beaches or within the many venues available yearround.

We have been planning festivities to honor you in true Hawaiian style and look forward to you, your crew and your guests joining us to party. The more the merrier.. Did I say that there will be lei, mai-tais, yummy luaus, and loads of smiles and entertainment? Oh yes! That is all part of our joy in celebrating your successful arrival.

The flag officers, board of directors, membership and staff of Kaneohe Yacht Club wish you a safe and swift crossing

Once again, welcome aboard shipmates! See you at Kaneohe Yacht Club after the “Fun race to Hawaii”!

Susie Jannuzzi KYC Commodore 2022

Rich Deveau Commodore Richmond Yacht Club

I am very happy to be welcoming the Pacific Cup competitors to the Richmond Yacht Club as they prepare for the start. Our Harbormaster, Danny Harris has been working hard to find berthing for some of the out-of-town boats. We have many Richmond Yacht Club boats entered and our docks have been buzzing with preparations for the race.

We all know it has been a tough couple of years, things are starting to feel more normal here at Richmond Yacht Club. Hopefully we can show our typical Richmond Yacht Club hospitality this year on the Riviera. We did manage to run our famous Wednesday Night Beer Can races through most of Covid. Please feel free to come sail in one before the start, they are very low-key and fun. We started actually having competitors enter on-line so we could track them. But if you are only doing one or two just contact the PRO, Eric Arens and he can get you signed-up.

Rich Deveau Commodore Richmond Yacht Club