Aloha!!!
We made it to Hawaii around 2:35 PM local time (5:35 PM PDT). This gives us a total race time of 13 days, 5 hours, 55 minutes, and 23 seconds and 12d 09:07:51 in corrected time. We are last in our class (but 2 boats did not finish). This is 3 days shorter than the previous passage on the original Med Viking 10 years ago. This crossing was a bit harder than the previous one: less crew, bigger boat, a lot more squalls, some unexpected stuff breaking in the middle of the night, being 10 years older, etc…
The welcome at the Kaneohe Yacht Club (KYC) was amazing. There was even a choice of a (pre-ordered) non-alcoholic drink for Marc. The other 3 of us think that they overcompensated with the rhum in our drinks. We did not mind after 2 weeks w/o alcohol. We got the unexpected gift of 2 beautiful leis. One from Marc and Andrea friends at the Oasis sailing club and one from the whole Andrea’s family. Both leis had some very welcoming notes attached to them.
We also got a nice plaque as a memory of the race:
When we arrived, we were rafted up to another boat by the crane.
The port captain at KYC told us we would have to move the boat to the bay at anchor, but we just got moved to a slip. It still requires an anchor, but we are free to get in and out as we wish.
Now we start the process of cleaning up the boat and repairing the broken stuff to make sure that captain Karine gets a safe and fun trip back home. Rigger and boat mechanics have been scheduled.