Pacific Cup
1980–2024 finishes, elapsed times, and PassageBoats catalog matches
The Pacific Cup is a race of more than 2,100 nautical miles from San Francisco to Kaneohe, Hawaii. The Pacific Cup Yacht Club has run it in even-numbered years since 1980. The fleet includes doublehanded boats, family crews, cruising boats, and purpose-built racers.
The race organizer's boat census records every published finish through 2024. It gives a useful answer to a narrow question: which designs have completed this ocean course, how often, and in what average elapsed time? A finish is evidence for the prepared boat that made the passage. It is not a rating of every sistership or a substitute for inspection, equipment, and crew judgment.
Most Frequent Finishers by Design
Official census totals for all completed editions, sorted by finishes
PassageBoats Designs in the Record
Official design labels matched to live catalog pages, plus the Pacific Seacraft 44 research candidate
| Official design label | Catalog record | Finishes | Average elapsed | Years finished |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passport 40 | Passport 40 | 10 | 14d 11h 12m | 1990, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2014 |
| Pacific Seacraft 44 | Pacific Seacraft 44Research candidate | 5 | 14d 07h 33m | 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014 |
| Freya 39 | Freya 39 | 4 | 15d 06h 57m | 1982, 1984, 1996, 2000 |
| Westsail 32 | Westsail 32 | 4 | 14d 23h 43m | 1988, 1990, 1994, 2024 |
| Tartan 37 | Tartan 37 | 3 | 14d 10h 41m | 1982, 1996, 2004 |
| Valiant 40 | Valiant 40 | 3 | 12d 04h 29m | 1994, 1998 |
| Hans Christian 33 | Hans Christian 33 Traditional | 2 | 16d 05h 12m | 1990 |
| Pacific Seacraft 37 | Pacific Seacraft Crealock 37 | 2 | 16d 03h 00m | 2004, 2014 |
| Valiant 42 | Valiant 42 | 2 | 14d 02h 49m | 2004, 2008 |
| Baba 40 | Baba 40 | 1 | 13d 13h 06m | 1992 |
| Crealock 34 | Pacific Seacraft Crealock 34 | 1 | 14d 03h 42m | 1996 |
| Crealock 37 | Pacific Seacraft Crealock 37 | 1 | 13d 06h 59m | 1992 |
| Fast Passage 39 | Fast Passage 39 | 1 | 13d 20h 19m | 1986 |
| Hudson Force 50 | Hudson Force 50 | 1 | 16d 12h 54m | 2024 |
| Hylas 44 | Hylas 44 | 1 | 13d 04h 37m | 1998 |
| LaFitte 44 | Lafitte 44 | 1 | 14d 06h 20m | 1988 |
| Wauquiez Pretorien 35 | Wauquiez Pretorien 35 | 1 | 14d 01h 56m | 2018 |
The census keeps “Crealock 37” and “Pacific Seacraft 37” as separate labels. Both link to the same catalog design, but their finish totals remain separate here so the source data is not silently merged.
Pacific Seacraft 44
The official census records five finishes in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2014. Its average elapsed time across those finishes was 14d 07h 33m.
Valis in the official results
| Year | Boat and skipper | Elapsed | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Valis, Paul Elliott | 13d 02h 58m 38s | 7th in Division A, 36th in fleet |
| 2010 | Valis, Paul Elliott | 14d 06h 12m 45s | 6th in Division A, 40th in fleet |
| 2012 | Valis, Paul Elliott | 13d 20h 56m 52s | 1st in Division A, 28th in fleet |
| 2014 | Valis, Paul Elliott | 14d 18h 14m | Tied 4th in Division A; seamanship award |
The census also records a 2006 Pacific Seacraft 44 finish. The scanned 2006 result has not yet been transcribed into the boat-level table above. Open the official scan index →
Results by Race Year
All 22 completed editions represented in the census are linked below. Early years point to the organizer's scan index. Later years point to the individual result page.
The 2020 race was cancelled and is not counted as an edition.
Data Notes
- The organizer states that the census covers every Pacific Cup with published results from 1980 through 2024.
- The source excludes boats recorded as DNF, DNS, retired, or outside the time limit because they have no finish time.
- Finish counts treat each race finish as one record, including repeat finishes by the same physical boat.
- Average elapsed time is the simple average of actual passage time, not corrected or handicap time.
- The organizer normalized obvious spelling variants. Rare or ambiguous designs may remain split.
- Scanned results for 1998 through 2006 required OCR. The organizer skipped illegible rows instead of guessing.
- The 2020 race was cancelled, so the 22 editions span 23 possible even-numbered race years.
- These are finish records. Starts that ended in retirement or withdrawal need the individual year results and are not included in the census totals.
- Catalog matches are manual and conservative. Generic or ambiguous source labels are not linked to a PassageBoats page.
Sources
- [1]OfficialPacific Cup boat censusOrganizer's explanation of the census and its method.
- [2]OfficialPacific Cup Census spreadsheetThe organizer's downloadable design-level dataset covering 1980–2024.
- [3]OfficialPacific Cup past resultsMaster index for result pages and historical scans.
- [4]Raw datadata/pacific-cup-race-data.jsonStructured export with the census provenance and all 22 result-source records, retrieved 2026-08-01.