Once upon a time, maybe a decade ago, I cooked up an idea for something that I called the CrossPac. It was a three-leg trip from California to Newcastle, Australia with stops in Hawaii and Samoa. Each leg was roughly 2,000 miles. The hope was to hook up with the Melbourne-Osaka, and then do a race from Japan to California. The whole circuit was to be called "The Rim".
Mighty few people were interested and it fizzled. Also, the timing was very difficult. Melbourne-Osaka starts in March and takes roughly a month/40 days to get to Osaka. If a mid- May race was held from Japan to California, that would be doable. However, a northern-hemisphere-summer race from CA- HI - Samoa - Newcastle puts racers approaching Australia in the southern hemisphere winter, not so good. Then, you have to wait six months to do the Melboure-Osaka event. It just didn't work out, nobody was much interested and that was that.
I might mention that ALL the interest.... ALL of it was from Aussies. ONE US-based boat expressed interest, and they weren't really serious.
Last edited by AlanH; 02-14-2018 at 11:12 PM.
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