Simultaneous Pacific Racing

With sixty-five boats on the line, the Pacific Cup will be putting quite a crowd into the ocean. Additionally, on July 12th there will be twenty-four more starting out from the Singlehanded TransPac. I was hoping that the Vic-Maui race's eleven would be out there at the same time but they're leaving in mid-June.

Still, that's a lot of boats racing to Hawaii at roughly the same time. One Hundred boats racing to Hawaii. That's pretty cool.

The thing is, that's a hundred boats with several hundred people that are going to have the time of their lives in a really exciting yacht race. But you have to think that with the amount of money spent on these races and the type of environmentally-sensitive people that sailors are, we could make this about something better. Some way to raise awareness for the health of the oceans.

On Oceanaire, we're already raising money for a charity, Give Back a Smile, to benefit victims of domestic abuse. Other boats are doing similar: Elise for Beat Sarcoma, Le Flying Fish for Children's Hospital Oakland.

Stephane from Le Flying Fish has a start with the Blue Water Charter, the least we can do is to lessen each of our environmental impacts on land and sea. Oceanaire will follow these guidelines and find a way to encourage more to do so.