Join the presentation live at MPYC or via Zoom on Friday, March 27, 5:30 PM. Learn about the plans for the 2026 Spinnaker Cup and some changes planned to improve the event. Presented by Dave MacEwen and Jeff Thorpe.

The Notice of Race is published and registration is open for the 12th annual CA Offshore Race Week, featuring three distance races going down the west coast. Register for any one or all three and experience some of the best ports on the California coast.

The west coast's most bad-a** offshore race is just around the corner!

And the only thing as cool as racing the SoCal 300, is getting a gallery of epic Ultimate Sailing images (and video) afterwards. Plus the chance to be featured in the Ultimate Sailing Calendar, and leading boating publications! Contact Utlimate Sailing to reserve, space is limited.

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GALLERY FROM PREVIOUS SOCAL 300s

The 2024 CA Offshore Race Week featured 90 boats and over 400 sailors racing throughout the three events of the series which is in its 8th year, annually occurring around Memorial Day Weekend. 

John Brynjolfsson (TP52, Saga) described the race experience best saying, “Few experiences can rival the thrill of sailing with Saga's seasoned crew under the iconic Golden Gate Bridge, alongside a fleet of fellow sailors embarking on a week-long, 500-mile odyssey. This historic week comprised the storied Spinnaker Cup from StFYC to MPYC, the Coastal Cup from MPYC to SBYC, and the SoCal 300 from SBYC to SDYC. As the fog lifted outside San Francisco, and the flood tide lay behind us, the fleet converged down the coast on Monterey, our first port of call. A welcome break and authentic eateries awaited our courageous crew. 

The 2024 California Offshore Race Week (CORW) is here and the excitement is buzzing. The series includes three separate races down the coast from San Francisco to San Diego. The first leg starts off with the Spinnaker Cup, San Francisco to Monterey (84 nm), then the Coastal Cup from Monterey to Santa Barbara (205 nm), and finally the SoCal 300 from Santa Barbara to San Diego (255 nm).

In 2023, the CORW saw the smallest boat in the fleet, Marc-Andrea Klimaschewski's Dogpatch 26 Moonshine, achieve an impressive overall victory. Klimaschewski and his crew, representing the Pacific Northwest, navigated challenging conditions and enjoyed the thrill of the SoCal 300 segment. The event also highlighted notable performances from other competitors, including the Express 37s dominating the Spinnaker Cup and the MOD 70s in the CA 500 race.

The west coast's most bad-a** offshore race is just around the corner!

And the only thing as cool as racing the SoCal 300, is getting a gallery of epic Ultimate Sailing images (and video) afterwards. Plus the chance to be featured in the Ultimate Sailing Calendar, and leading boating publications! Contact Utlimate Sailing to reserve, space is limited.

ORDER FORM

GALLERY FROM PREVIOUS SOCAL 300s

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Sailonline is delighted to announce that we will again be partnering with the Encinal, St Francis, Monterey Peninsula , Santa Barbara and San Diego yacht clubs, and this year online-host two of their prestigious California Offshore Race Week, the CA 500 and the SoCal 300.

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Dave MacEwen and Jeff Thorpe will offer a briefing on Spinnaker Cup preparations, tactics, weather routing and safety requirements at MPYC on April 9 starting at 530pm. This briefing is highly recommended for all skippers and crew who are planning to race in the upcoming 2024 Spinnaker Cup, or simply dreaming of doing the race someday. It would also be of interest to other racers and non-racers alike, including Spinnaker Cup volunteers. 

The smallest boat takes the Series again. The 2023 California Offshore Race Week has concluded with Marc-Andrea Klimaschewski's Dogpatch 26 Moonshine, the smallest boat in the fleet, earning the title of overall CORW winner. For the second year in a row, the little boat makes a big splash.

Klimaschewski said "All of us are very happy about the great result and we are proud to be representing the Pacific Northwest and following in the footsteps of our good friends on Pell Mell who won the series last year in another small, wooden boat. Being a small boat, we always try minimizing our distance sailed. We also push the boat as hard as we can, the sails and loads are very manageable so if we overdo it on the gas pedal, that's usually an easy fix."