About the Crew - A real team effort!!

From boat prep to finish, our Pacific Cup 2008 campaign has been a team effort all the way. Everyone contributed to our success. And, not just crew either! Those spouses who had the time or could make the time also helped out. Here's a bit of the story. If someones individual contribution is not mentioned here it was not omitted by intent but by accident and through the shear volume of effort that went into boat prep, the race, arrival in Hawaii, and post race activities as well.

Music's crew
Music's crew was 50% Canadian and 50% US. Three quarters live in the Pacific Northwest and only 25% are local to San Francisco. Our Canadian contingent regards our US contingent as "honorary" Canadians, and in that we are honored. Half of my crew and I met racing on other (big) boats such as Kokopelli 2 (actually Kokopelli squared) and Marda Gras, both Santa Cruz 52's. And most of my crew and I came to know each other and became friends while Music was berthed in Bellingham, WA.

Boat Prep
Because Music is a 20 year old boat, boat prep took on a life of it's own. Despite the fact that Gail and I had made many upgrades to Music over the years, and had already done many tasks necessary to make Music ready for the ocean, Music needed a lot of work, a lot of work. Everyone contributed as much as possible, but because most of our crew are from the Northwest, the lions share of prep fell to Gail, George Bean and myself. Even so, those from out of town who could help put in as much as they could.

John and Sharon Denny from Brentwood Bay, just north of Victoria, BC, for example, came down for a 9 day period and helped get us through one of the toughest projects: removing and rebedding the jib car tracks.

Steve Jacobsen and Bob Peters, Seattle/Tacoma area, made multiple trips down over the months of boat prep. Kim, Georges wife, became a boat widow bceause of all of his unremitting help. Even my wife's fingerprint are all over Music in terms of boat prep. From designing and sewing sheet bags to hanging curtains seperating the galley and navigation areas form the main saloon (sleeping accomodations for most of the crew during the race) Gail worked tirelessly to help make sure Music was ready for the ocean with a few creature comforts.

Simon Walker and Lesley Hesford, both from Victoria, came down over an extended weekend in June to assist with installing the Duogen, a combination wind and towing generator used on the race. And, Simon came back down a week before the race start to help with "final" boat prep which itself took on a life of its own.

Provisioning
Menu planning, provisioning, and cooking was handled almost exclusively by John Denny and Gordon (Gord) Irving, both from Brentwood Bay. Gail assisted with buying unrefrigerated vegetables locally, a suggestion by Diana Jessie, one of our boat neighbors. Those vegetables were a real blessing on the race. Because they'd never been refrigerated they didn't need refrigeraion and lasted throughout the entire race, only suffering minimal spoilage.

Additional Help and Mentor
Jim Jessie, Diana's husband, with his 70 plus years of boat work and cruising experience was a constant source of information, and his knowledge and skills were an invaluable resource throughout our boat prep.

Navigation
Our navigator, Simon Walker, trained in meteorology in college, and who now works in avalanche forcasting and control in British Columbia, downloaded and analyzed grib files (wind and wave forcast files) throughout the race. He worked absolutely as hard as possible to postion Music where we could take best advantage of the existing conditions. Additionally, Simon was the main driving force behind making the most of our sail inventory and keeping Music moving regardless of changing wind direction and force. It is largely through Simon's efforts that Music finished as well she did in the standings!

Watches
For those who know ocean sailing not much needs to be said here, but for those not familiar with it, you sail 24/7. No stopping, no anchoring. The boat simply keeps moving around the clock. This means you sail in shifts, or watches. Due to their prior ocean experience, Bob Peters and Steve Jacobsen were watch captains, and watches were split into "Port"and "Starboard". Each watch consisted of a crew of three. Additionally, watches rotated in 6 hour increments during the day and 4 hour increments at night.

Simon and I had our own watch schedule, which ran mid watch to mid watch, splitting the port and starboard watches in half. This meant that during watch change someone was on deck who was familiar with the existing sea conditions and was able to drive the boat while the new watch which in many cases was waking up had time to get oriented to the conditions on deck before taking the helm.

My Role
Aside from assiting Simon with navigation, my role was really making the numerous repairs (and in some cases over seeing the repairs) necessary to keep the boat sailing. In many cases we were able to avoid large repairs by addressing them while they were still small. In the case of significant repairs, the repair was really a group effort, and those repairs were monitored daily for the duration of the race.

What does it all mean?
In the end, as mentioned in the beginning, this race was a total group effort. We could have never made it to the start line without everyones sweat effort. And, we could have never had the kind of race we did without everyones contribution on the water. Not one of us stands out above the others in terms of effort and self sacrifice. I am proud to say that over the years I came to know a group of really great sailors, and that in the period leading up to and throughout our race it was a total team effort all the way! Because of this I am proud of our entire team. They all deserve a huge round of applause and heart felt thanks!!

Music's Crew
Port Watch

• Bob Peters - watch captain
• Gord Irving - crew, health and safety officer, chef
• Lesley Hesford - crew

Starboard Watch

• Steve Jacobsen - watch captain
• John Denny - crew, chef
• George Bean - crew

Simon Walker - navigator
John McCartney - Skipper

Helms Persons: Everyone
Slackers: None

Thanks For Your Support

Well, we've arrived!! Thanks for all of the incredible support and interest in our little mission to sail from San Francisco to Kaneohe, Hawaii. Never in my wildest dreams would I ever have thought that this adventure would have sparked such interest in so many. Thank you everyone for all your thoughts and wishes. You have no idea how much this means to my crew and me. I am so lucky to have come to know such an aminable and quality group of sailors as those onboard Music for this race. Time to get some rest, and dinner. Love to all, Skipper John

PS - special thanks to Kristi, sister-in-law to George, for establishing this blog for all of us. Fabulous!

The Finish

Music finished at 13:03:06 on Sunday, July 27, elapsed time of 12 days, 2 hrs, 33:06 minutes. They were part of a Pacific Cup record in that they finished 30 seconds before Vallis. There's never been a finish that close in the history of the race. Vallis is in Division A so doesn't affect our standing, but it was exciting for the race committee. The crew is now getting settled in our rental house, enjoying the beach, and trying to get their land legs. More later. Thanks to everyone for their ongoing support and wishes. And special thanks to Wyoming Karen (John's sister), his sister Sheri, and niece Tina who sent a beautiful boat lei.

25 Miles to go

Music did her 25 mile check-in at 9:40 HST, estimated finish time of 12:40 HST. No update from Music last night - but that's to be expected. They're busy, busy, busy holding onto a tight second.

Music Sings

Music made their 100 mile report at 11:18pm Saturday. Estimated time of arrival at the finish line is now Sunday at 11:30 Hawaii time. Go Music Go!!!

Mr Toad's Wild Ride

This will probably be a lag of a few days until the next blog posting. The wives are heading to Hawaii this morning (Saturday) and we expect Music to finish on Sunday. Here's the latest from Music.
Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2008 12:18 AM

Hi everyone,
Well, were coming down to the wire. We just passed our 300 miles to go mark. time right now is 11:30pm, or 23:30. Bob, Lesley and Gord are on watch, we have our 1.5 oz reaching spinnaker up, and I am at the nav computer. We just finished making about 25 gallons of water. Late afternoon, the head tore out of our 1.5 Oz running spinnaker so after retrieving the halyard, I got things sorted out for the repair and handed them off to Gord, who at watch change this evening, handed them off to George who finished the repair about 10 PM.

The skies look like we are potentially in for a wild night of squalls! As I write this I can feel the hull speed increase and boat motion pick up signaling the beginning of a another 20 minute "Mister Toad's Wild Ride". But then, that's why we came! You just don't get to drive like this on San Francisco Bay!

Tomorrow's dinner may be the last of the race. If we can manage about 200 miles by this time tomorrow night, we may just arrive at the finish about daybreak Sunday morning. - Admittedly, optimistic, but theoretically possible.
Well, I have to get on deck as things are really heating up now. Hopefully, I'll have a chance to post this in a couple of hours.

Thanks for all of the support, thoughts, prayers, wishes, and love,

Skipper John

In The Groove

Greetings from 24.01 N 149.26 W. We are now approximately 513 NM from Kaneohe Bay and "trundling along" (as Simon calls it) at 7 to 8 knots.

We had our second whale sighting last evening just before sunset when we encountered a sperm whale cow and calf swimming north across our course. They got within 50 yards of our bow before they spouted one last time and dove beneath us not to be seen again. We prepared for an evening of squalls by peeling to our heavier 1.5oz Pineapple spinnaker from the light air spinnaker we were flying. We gybe'd to port after the peel and prepared for a stormy night. Instead, we were treated to a partially clouded sky with a million stars of all types twinkling in the night sky. The sky show continued with the moon rise that bathed Music in moon beams. A magical night.

At the shift to the mid watch, the retiring port watch reported sighting the lights from three boats, probably fishermen. After a while one of those lights didn't look quite right and we looked at the unknown target through binoculars. Out of the gloom a boat appeared, one mast forward, one big mainsail - no spinnaker. It was our arch nemesis! 'Checkered Past', the Wyle Cat that we have been battling for first and she's slightly behind us! In the dark she passes less than a quarter mile to our stern. We watched, as she made her way south, eventually to disappear over the horizon. The next morning's position reports confirm this. We are still officially in second place, but Checkered Past's lead is now razor thin.

Dawn brought the only squall of the night. We gybe'd again to best run out the storm which brought much rain and wind. Another squall threatened later that morning but we successfully ran that one as it passed to the north. Overnight, Music developed a nagging groaning sound emanating from somewhere in the mast or rigging. So captain John again ascended "Mount Music" to inspect and tighten any loose rigging (and to possibly relive his previous career as rock climber and mountaineer extrodinaire.) The sound appears to be of no consequence and is probably coming from the spinnaker net vibrating and causing a harmonic on the head stay.

Checkered Past made a brief appearance on the horizon in the morning and hasn't been seen since. The trade winds of the morning faded into a gentle breeze by afternoon which also brought on blistering sun and heat to those in the cockpit. Eventually the sun turned behind the spinnaker and brought on the much needed relief and also brought out the ukulele played by Bob and accompanied by Leslie and John D on vocals. Chef Gord prepared a marvelous stirred fried beef and vegetables on rice along with a coleslaw salad.

We are eating dinner in the cockpit, listening to Hawaiian music. Our thoughts turn towards the finish in a few days with it's promise of showers, clean clothes and ice cream and cool drinks. This experience has been wonderful and in a way we don't want it to end, but it also brings out feelings of longing and missing our family and love ones. Hope all is well with you as it is well with Music.

George


Note to Kim,
Saw the notes from Kristi, the Thiemans and the Richard Beans. Tell them thanks for the kind words and can't wait to bore them with all my sea stories.

-Love George

Busy 24hrs

Greetings from 145-1/2 West on the blue path to paradise!
Yesterday's light air frustrations and maintenance business were offset with grins and baths. The full sun roast was delayed until late afternoon when a few minutes was all that it took to dry off. Sun screen shortage is not a problem yet. Another excellent offering from the galley studs, Thai tinged chicken stir fry...superb.

Some days you eat the bear, some days the bear eats you. The Starboard 2200 - 0200 watch finished off with our first squall, moving right-to-left (not the norm) at about 20 knots with rain. They gnawed on that one for awhile with great boat speed and the aftermath of light air wasn't bad, by our standards, so we did most of the eating. Port watch followed suit with a left-to-right pup with less punch. We chewed that one up easily but the bloody thing got in a good swipe of a parting shot on us with the lightest stuff to date, 2+ knots. Port retired at 0600 only to be back up for a gybe at 0730 as another, wet and blowy one rolled over us. Then it was gybe, peel a kite, gybe, peel....call out the bandits!

The view from the back of the boat during these intense duels with the elements is a beautiful thing, decades and thousands of miles of sailing savvy are obvious as the dance before the mast plays out. Voices are loud, sure, they have to be in the noise and urgencies but never without purpose and when Music has settled back into her ways the damage and injuries are minimal, heck, Gord looks to be over today's already! None of this is lost on the cockpit, we focus on every cue from those voices in order to help make their execution of our maneuvers safe and successful.

As I write Port watch is back on and the maintenance continues but at least it is lower key and Starboard watch gets some well earned rest. Running at 6 - 9 knots on or about the rhumb line, full sun, enjoying it for now, will remember it late tonight, perhaps. Our nemesis, Checkered Past, is over the horizon at present, we are solidly holding second place in Division. Music continues to graciously and forgivingly do all we ask of her.

To our loves and accomplices back home, we miss you and look forward to our next meeting.
Aloha! - Bob Peters

JM note: Because the boat is constantly moving, the ocean is a VERY wearing environment. Things that stay solidly in place dock side, or even bay or coastal sailing don't get a rest out here. As such, lots of little things pop up that may never had, had we not done this race. Plus, we are pushing Music hard! Not over pushing, or being reckless, but just plain sailing hard. That means more wear and tear on the boat. All this takes it's toll, but so far, as Bob said, Music is VERY gracious, and resilient. Thanks for all of the greetings and well wishes - sure brings a smile to us. With luck, we'll be in Kaneohe in 4 or 5 days and then we'll rest. For now it's race, investigate, repair if necessary, eat and sleep. I couldn't have asked for a better crew!! This is and has been a total team effort - all the way. We'll got to get some rest now. This will go out when we connect with SSB to sailmail. Can't be sure when that will be, but it will happen most likely tonight.
Love to all, and especially my darling wife, Gail. - John

The Race Is On

Hi Gail, sorry for the lack of report yesterday -- it was a busy one! Peeled spinnakers to the new 3/4 oz and the sun came out for late afternoon for the first time. Galley boys did a beautiful roast beef with roast veggies, spuds and red wine. During dinner suddenly "SAIL HO!!!" -- Checkered Past closing in from the North at a constant angle of 315 (virtually a collision course). With some unstable air around (vertically developed cumulus cells) we elected to peel back to the 1.5 oz Pineapple in case of squalls later in the evening. While this was going on Checkered Past crossed about 1/4 mile in front of us after about 1130 miles of racing! Game on . . we gybed onto port board both to protect the left hand side of the course which we think is favoured for now and to be on port in case of squalls at night. Lots of black clouds around moving in the veered flow but no real action out of them; we sailed all night in sight of Checkered Past, and this morning they're still there on our starboard beam 5 or 6 miles away. IT'S A RACE! Cirrus and Kokomo are now about 40 or so miles astern but still very much in the game.Gotta go -- daily gribs are in and time for some tactical head scratching. More later -- you'll hear from George and J McC about how stoked they were with the 1/2 way goodies.Cheers,Simon

Followup from John McC.
Simon pretty well filled you in on the uninvited guest crashing our half-way celebration. You should have seen us! In the best tradition of Jack Aubery, Master and Commander, when the enemy (our competition) was first sighted on the horizon, the binoculars came out and the intruder was accurately identified. Dinner dishes and leftovers were stowed in a flash. And, as Simon said, the 3/4 OZ spinnaker was peeled to the Pineapple Sails 1.5 oz kite, followed by a quick gybe. Had this been back in the Aubery days, we would most assuredly have fired a shot with our bow chaser cannon as he crossed our bow. But we are, of course, more civilized now.

A New Perspective

Kristi, Kim's sister, has combined Music's positions with a Google Earth view. Absolutely amazing.

Ok, I'm at it again. I have all the points logged into google earth now. This is an excellent image that give perspective to the enormity of this endeavor.K

The sailor said " Brandy, you're a fine girl" (you're a fine girl)"What a good wife you would be" (such a fine girl)"But my life, my lover, my lady is the sea"

Mid-Ocean Contact

I was forwarded this email from Le Flying Fish, in the double handed division. They had a brief conversation via VHF with Music. It sounds like our crew is having a better time of it than these two. Le Flying Fish is a Moore 24, that's right 2 guys are sailing a 24 ft boat to Hawaii. No wonder they sound so tired.

Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 1:45:00 PMSubject: Day something or other
Aloha Dan,I'm kind of loosing track of the number of days, in fact, anything not relating to the boat or sailing has been forgotten. I don't remember what I do for a living or what country I live in.Today it's warm without sun. The wind has been dying all over the area. This is kinda good as that is why we went so far south. Hopefully the guys up north have even less wind as they are closer to the high pressure system. Us being south give us more wind, but allows us to move at a slightly better angle without getting to close to the high to quick. It kind of hurts to have had to travel so far south, but hopefully, for the reasons given it will pay off.Yesterday, we saw another racer. It was Music and they were going NW while we were going SW. It was nice to see them and to talk to them on the VHF. They told us that they were ready for their half way party and that they were going to have roast beef. Lucky them. We'll I may not have chosen roast beef for the half way party, but I'm sure it beats freeze dried food.we also had a bird try to land on top of the mast, but it was moving too much and the wind indicator was too pointy for him; too bad has it would have been nice to have his company.Some of the boats are having difficulty charging their batteries because the sun has consistently refused to make himself available. This means that the boat, Elise--an Express 27--that was doing our communication relay to the communication vessel had to "hand us off" to another boat, XL--a brand new Antrim 40 design. The good thing about our SSB being down is that we use very little power, so we are not affected too much by the lack of sun.Wishing for a bit more sun and wind,JP

s/v Music Update, Monday, July 21

Today's message from Lesley.
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 10:06 PM

Hi! Here we are out in the open Pacific, about a third from our Hawaiian destination. The nearest land is the Moonless Mountains on the seabed below us, and underwater Mt. McKinley, which I think rises from about 5000 meters below sea level to 2500 meters below. Not much chance of hitting it, I don't think...

We're now at 29'03" North and 138'20" West, and the layers of wool and Goretex we've been wearing constantly are gradually coming off, revealing us in our unwashed state. Most of us have managed to have bit of a wash under the shower bag on the foredeck, and to do some laundry, and socks are flying like pennants from the lifelines. The Bad Hair Contest is temporarily on hold. (I'm disappointed, as think I was winning.)

The colour of the open ocean water is amazing as it breaks alongside the boat, like a gemstone of deep indigo blue. So far we've seen flying fish (hilarious to watch) and an albatross. There were many whales on the first day out of San Francisco, but not one since - though another boat, No Ka Oi, reported during check in today that they had hit one. Fortunately there was no damage to boat or creature, and the whale just gave them a disgusted look and swam away.

Now that the first few days of queasiness or seasickness have passed for all of us, and we are more used to eating, sleeping, changing and moving about in a small box that is tossing around constantly, life on board has settled into a routine of watches, rotating through the days. We are still getting used to sleep deprivation, surviving on an hour or two of sleep at a time. I've found it hard at times, especially when steering in the dark under spinnaker, as so much concentration is needed.

Our cooks, John D and Gordy, have out done themselves on the provisioning, and we're feasting on such things as Italian sausage pasta and salmon burgers. The anticipated tuna dinner hasn't appeared yet, as no fish seems willing to sacrifice itself for our dining pleasure. We live in hope.

The race is a close one in our division, and we're hoping that our competitors to the north fall into the Pacific High, or at least slowed by lighter winds and higher pressure, while we avoid it with our strategy of going farther south. I'm eager to see tomorrow's position reports. We've had a frustrating day or two of occasional lighter winds, as we sail across a ridge of the high, but hope that soon we'll be in the area of blue skies and line squalls.

Love to all,

Lesley

s/v Music Update, Sunday, July 20

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Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 10:30 PM
Today's update is coming from John Denny.

We had another great day today starting with Lesley getting top honors with a speed of 15.6 k just before our watch at 10pm last night, the bar is set another notch higher. Wind was up for a while during the night which made for interesting driving, sailing deep with larger cross seas lots of rolling with a temptation to over steer. Another boat was sighted just before dawn which kept us all on high alert through the morning, at the 9am role call we determined it was "TIKI BLUE" a boat in a faster div. Roll call also determined we were still in the running for first with "MUSIC" being the southern most boat, we feel this will be to our advantage due to what we hope to be better breeze and the ability to heat it up and sail faster. We spent the day sailing fast,playing bad ukelele,fishing (with no luck yet), doing laundry and having showers. We are now all clean and fluffy with the boat looking like "Hop Sings" laundrymat with all our nickies adding 1500 sq ft to our down wind sail area,it added at least 1 kn to our speed . Salmon patties (in lieu of fresh tuna) for dinner has now fortified us for gybing practice later this evening.

s/v Music Update, Saturday July 19

Received this last night from Music. This will explain why they've dropped to 4th place. It seems to be a really competitive division. Hopefully they'll be in 2nd or 3rd tomorrow now that they're back to full speed. They call John the lazarette lizard because he spent so many days curled up in the aft lazarette (storage locker) while we were getting the boat ready. He's about the only one, besides Lesley, who could contort enough to get back there. That's from his climbing days and the flexibility he developed. Sounds like they've gotten everything taken care of and they do an equipment check every day to catch just these types of things early.

Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 9:36 PM
Subject: July 18 - Fix it Friday

Hi Gail, we miss you!

Skipper has elected to have a different crewmember write each day . . so today it's me -- Simon. Thanks for your updates and encouragement. Great to be hanging in the front of our pack, but it's close racing. Today our first and biggest repair was to reinforce the steering quadrant where a crack was developing. We slowed right down, sailed under main alone for one hour with minimal movement of the steering wheel while John "lazarette lizard" McC applied magic potion and hardware to the offending part. We managed to keep going about 5 knots while all this was going on, but it no doubt ate into our 30 minute lead over Checkered Past (or Wylie Coyote as we call 'em).

Next up, the lazarette lizard insisted on being hoisted up the rig for an inspection -- good thing as there was some more work to be done to arrest some chafing action in a few spots. The lizard and George then retired to the forward head to make some water. In the meantime, John D and I sent Gord up the rig again to rerig the topping lift in external mode to stop the chafe. Improvising all the way but we're back up to full speed. Lesley stepped in as guest chef while all this was going on and we had an awesome chicken curry and rice dinner accompanied by our first beers of the race so far.

Tomorrow we intend to catch tuna -- we'll let you know how that goes. Great sailing so far, wish you were here!

To Bill from Bob: "Roger that -- we'll get there fast and then take it slow!"

JM Note:
HI Dear, basically we've had our share of repairs but have still kept on racing. Hope we continue as lucky!! As for this crew, well, I couldn't have asked for a better bunch. We're all getting along great and the teamwork is awesome!! I don't foresee any issues either. They're all fantastic. Tell Kim the next time she sees George, he's going to be a different man. He loves it out here and he remains a real asset and fits right in with everyone else.
Got to go,
Love me.

s/v Music Update, Friday, July 18

The crew was still 1st in their division as of this morning, but some of their competitors are coming up fast. Their rank in the fleet will start to slip as the faster boats have started the race. We have a few messages sent from the crew. Keep praying for wind. Music is a relatively heavy boat and she does better in winds of 20-30. She slows down in light air and that’s when the others will make up ground. Here are the updates:

Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 2:14 PM

Dear Gail, please forward to Kim.

Been a busy past few days. Wind is everywhere from the teens to mid twenties. Waves aren't especially big, but Music has been on a constant heel and the boat motion has been quite lively to boot. Yesterday we did a spinnaker launch at dawn and a takedown in late twilight both when was off shift so not much sleep or journal writing either. Music is holding up well but there are always things to fix and tweak. Looking forward to seeing you again and if our luck holds up (we could be in second place right now)perhaps a little sooner. The crew has all been great and I'm having a grand time. Love to you and all the family. Bye for now.

Love, George


Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 1:56 PM
Ahoy!

Three minutes ago (7/17) I found out I was giving the daily report, so this is my maiden voyage.

We have been making great time and crew spirits are very high. Daily activities, other than sailing Music fast and in the right direction, include checking for unusual wear and tear, chafe and investigating strange sounds and we jump right on them.

We put up the brand new 1.5 oz reacher kite at day break and later in the afternoon switched to a bigger 1.5 oz kite which we can sail deeper. We have been on a starboard tack since an hour after the race started and may be for quite some time.

Today we passed a singled handed TransPac sailor and we spoke to him over the radio. He sat for two days off the Farralon Islands. The food is great and very well organized so huge kudos to Gord and John D.

We have not seen any biologic's other than some birds but we are always on the lookout.

Gray skies fair wind but the wave action is not very consistent yet so sometimes the helm is a challenge, but everyone is up to it.

Best wishes to all and big kisses for MamaBear.

Steve Jacobsen aboard the S/V Music

s/v Music Wed, July 16 2:19 PM

Thanks for the email last night. We seem to be doing fairly well and set a spinnaker this morning at first light. Now we are on a screaming reach, averaging 8-9 kts. A couple of minor issues have popped up, but nothing significant and those have been dealt with. Duogen seems to work well to present, but sail mail, and downloading gribs and weather faxes take quite a bit of power so you may only hear from us every couple of days. Just know that we are all ding fine and no one has gotten sea sick.

Next time, one of the crew will send.
Love,
Me

s/v Music Pacific Cup 2008

Music is on its way to Hawaii in the 2008 Pacific Cup! This blog was lovingly created by George's sister-in-law, who is increasingly obsessed with this race and enjoying every minute of the excitement. I "watched" the start using the webcam at the top of the Exploratorium in San Francisco. These pictures are captured from that web cam. At last post, Music was 3rd in its division and 6th overall, but many many nautical miles to go!