Sailboat Delivery Hawaii to California

I joined the crew of Captain Rhys Balmer (Griffin Bay Adventures) to deliver the Santa Cruz 50 "Oaxaca" from Hawaii to San Francisco.

[@chrismcclary108]

Thanks for showing your route! Not many do this. Great video!

[@marianoschaller9066]

To sail to Hawaii is a great chalenge itself, but is mot a transpacific sailing. I see the same expression one and over and over again, everywhere. Transpacific means to sail all across the Pacific ocean, just like a transatlanit means to sail across the Atlantic ocean. Great video.

[@deankruse2891]

its just the name of the race, not a literal transpacific transit.

[@ExploringCabinsandMines]

Why 6 people ???

[@deankruse2891]

2 shifts

[@jackever]

Going north is a reach/ close reach...not close hauled... no?

[@andyw248]

Yup, that's exactly what I had thought before the trip... However, true wind angle during that segment was about 68 degrees. Windspeed was around 15 knots on average, and boat speed maybe around 9 knots. Punching these values into a wind calculator gives me an apparent wind angle of 43.6 degrees.

[@alixbarks]

Apparent wind is always closer on the nose than measured angles on a wind chart. Partly due to boat speed creating the 'apparent' wind. Mostly due to the gross over simplification of wind charts based on grib files at global scales compared to what you actually experience in real scale. And yes, I have sailed north out of Hawaii four times.

[@robertzsc]

the beginning comments make no sense

[@43bobbyg]

Great video just the face diapers a bit annoying. . Love the pacific

[@alixbarks]

Less annoying than basil cell carcinoma