Hey, we are enjoying racing our other boat right now and I'm pondering exactly what to do with Spadefoot (2000 Custom carbon Schumacher 28). For perhaps sentimental reasons I'm not ready to part with the boat, but I hate to see her just sitting there growing old. I think in the right hands (more ocean racing skill than ours) Spadefoot could be a real weapon racing to Hawaii without being too wild for shorthanding. For a charter, she could be well equipped with much of the required gear. In the last Pac Cup we received the Best Prepared Boat Award, so there's that. She has a trailer and is easy to move around.
You can read about the 2 years of racing on Spadefoot here: Spadefoot Adventures
Here's a list of gear to help you get to Hawaii:
Custom carbon cassette emergency rudder from CSI composites
Primary and emergency gudgeons are identical so emergency rudder works on the main gudgeons and main rudder works on the emergency gudgeons.
Sat Phone, Optimizer, sat phone antenna
AIS transponder
masthead VHF
Two independent autopilots (B&G and Pelagic) + Raymarine ST2000
MOM - needs recertification
Storm jib
Heavy weather jib
Dodger
Jet Boil with dual axis gimbal
Waterproof handheld with DSC
Waterproof spotlight
Fire blanket
2 70 watt Solar panels + 2 Genasun charge controllers
1 110AH Oasis Firefly Carbon Foam battery
1 25AH AGM battery
B&G Triton with wind and 3 displays
GPS connected to Triton NMEA 2000 network
Brand new UK X-Drive main
2017 UK X-Drive jib
A2, A4, and A0 in good/great condition
Jib top
I think the only required gear missing is a liferaft, EPIRB, jacklines, and a Lifesling.
It costs us about $4k to ship Spadefoot back from Hawaii including transport from Kaneohe to Honolulu.
The keel pin issue from Bermuda 1-2 has been dramatically improved and solved by Betts Boats.
With the 10hp motor and saildrive leg removed, Spadefoot is much lighter and slipperier than when we raced to Hawaii in 2016.
The retractable carbon sprit is much longer and better supported than when we raced to Hawaii.
Perhaps too late for this year, perhaps not. Let me know what you think.