“Walking down the dock I saw she had a tiller! In all the ads she had a wheel. Said David, “I had to see her and of course I found out that the couple was Steve and Nancy Rander. In 2015, he ran across an ad for Rage: “Pac Cup record-setter that can be sailed by a couple,” it read. Realizing this gaping hole in his life, Raney decided it was time to look for another boat. But after he moved from the Bay Area to Pittsburgh in 1993, sailing became a distant memory. Raney spent much of his youth around a variety of boats, large and small. Recently acquired from her original owners, Rage returns to the Pacific Cup for the first time since 2008 under her new owner, David Raney. Since that time, she’s lived up to her raison d’être and broken numerous West Coast records. Yet, the upcoming race arguably includes some of the most interesting entries to date.īreaking the record to Kaneohe, Hawaii in 1994, the Wylie-designed 70-foot Rage made the crossing in 8 days, 7 hours and 13 minutes. Since that time, we’ve seen numerous yachts of many shapes and sizes, including the diminutive Moore 24 Mas! campaigned by Mark English and Ian Rogers, who won trophies for their awe-inspiring doublehanded crossing in 2016. Bob Stange’s Ranger 29 Pro Tanto led division V, finishing in an agonizingly slow 17+ days. Dean Treadway’s well-known Farr designed One-Tonner Sweet Okole won her division as well.

It was that first year when Bill Lee’s 67-foot Merlin entered with her long, narrow, surf-inspired hull, reaching Hawaii in just over 10 days and winning the first-to-finish trophy. Seventy entrants are now eyeballing the 20th edition next year, with another chapter in the race’s storied history soon to be made. Since the inaugural edition in 1980, the Pacific Cup has drawn from a diverse spectrum of sailors and yachts for the ocean crossing course from California to Hawaii.

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