Originally Posted by
BobJ
"Bali Ha'i will find you . . ."
There's just something about Hanalei Bay.
Absolutely. I'd sure rather sail to Hanalei. I mean...it's Hanalei.
But if it got to be, say, the second week of April and Kauai was still requiring two weeks of quarantine, but the race committee and fleet friends could get to Oahu on the strength of a COVID test within 72 hours of boarding a plane... If it came to the point where ..... "we're going to cancel the race again", but we could sail to Haleiwa instead and still have a race, then ~Maybe~?
I would vote for sailing to Haleiwa over an outright cancellation.
Every photograph I've seen of the harbor shows open berths. North Shore is brutal in the Winter, but there are lots of pictures of people paddling around Haleiwa on SUP's in the summer. There's a reasonable anchorage off the north beach, and dinghies could land there. There are restaurants and hotels, though not a lot of them, and you have to drive a bit to get to them. I don't know about rental homes. There are a few stores, and a few more in nearby Waialua. RC could draw a finish line from the point just north of the harbor, due west, for a finish line, though they'd have to walk a couple of hundred yards from the road to get to it. There's a launch ramp in the harbor for little boats that might want to trailer down to Honolulu and load up on PASHA or MATSON.
Drone shot of the area again. It's obvious where the harbor is....find the place with no surf break.
Anyway, I just throw this out there as an option.
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