Actually Bill, I think a number of people have sailed their boats back. I
sailed mine back (Big Mon Hull #28) from the SSS TransPac in 1996, and I
don't think I was the first or only one to do it. I think a much larger
percentage of small boats are sailed home from the SSS event, so it wouldn't
surprise me at all if more Olson's had done that. I think a larger
percentage of Olson's on the Pacific Cup have shipped back since it's more
organized and handy (shipping facilities on the same island) and there is
usually at least one more person to split costs with. I sailed my boat
back with my (at that time) 72 year old Dad and we had a great trip back.
We didn't have a motor at all so the return took 21 days . . . we beat many
boats with 1000 miles of fuel (that they used). It was 13 days out to the
island, others in Olson's have done it much quicker (notably Bill Stange who
held the record until just recently).
I think it was a great boat in both directions but we were glad of great self-steering (Alpha) and a dodger ! Total damage in both directions was a broken lower shroud which we should have replaced when we replaced the rod stuff. We got great preparation help and advice from Dan Benjamin (who had done the race before) and Bruce Schwab from Svendsen's.
Eric
-- Eric Jungemann General Partner InfoMatrix Tel/Fax/Vmail: 530-672-0144 Email: eric@infomatrix-usa.com Web: www.infomatrix-usa.com ----------Received on Sat Jul 3 09:46:37 1999
>From: wmclover <wmclover@jps.net>
>To: Michael Gross <mzg30@amdahl.com>
>Cc: JSG3388@aol.com, olson30@sailpix.com
>Subject: Re:Pacific High
>Date: Fri, Jul 2, 1999, 10:04 PM
>
> All
>
> About 18 years ago before I bought Killer Rabbit, or even heard about Olson
30's, I
> was in a boatyard where I overheard a conversation from the first owner of
Pacific
> High. He claimed to have just single handed the boat to Hawaii, and after
> an hour or
> so stay single handed the boat back to S.F. My remembrance of his praise of
the
> rhythm of the boat with the waves on his return voyage, stuck in my mind and
was a
> factor in my later interest in Olson's. To the best of my knowledge, he
> still is the
> only person to sail the boat home from Hawaii.
>
> Bill Coverdale
>
> Michael Gross wrote:
>
>> The prototpye Olson30 "Pacific High" (hull #0?), still owned by Don and Susie
>> Snyder and Dennis and Rainy Bassano, still sails and races (as a perennial
>> contender) out of Santa Cruz.
>> > HELLO. I RECENTLY JOINED THE CLASS. THE FIRST THING I LEARNED FROM
CLASS
>> > GENERATED LITERATURE WAS THAT I HAVE HULL NO. 2. I WAS TOLD A BOAT NAMED
>> > GRINS THOUGHT TO BE NO. 2 MAY IN FACT BE NO. 1. ARE ALL OF THESE BOATS
>> > STILL SAILING? I MEAN, IF 1 & 2 ARE STILL AROUND, THEY MUST BE PRETTY
>> > SOLID, ESPECIALLY GIVEN THAT NO ONE SEEMS TO BE REALLY GENTLE WITH THE
THINGS.
>> > AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO IS IMPRESSED BY ALL THIS?
>