{"id":3196,"date":"2022-05-31T00:16:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T00:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/?p=3196"},"modified":"2022-06-09T01:58:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T01:58:54","slug":"michael-moradzadeh-pac-cup-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/31\/michael-moradzadeh-pac-cup-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Moradzadeh &#8211; Pac Cup 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Join us as we interview Michael on his personal history with the bi-annual <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/pacificcup.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pac Cup Regatta<\/a> \u2013 a 2070 mile sailing race from San Francisco to Honolulu established in 1980. He has won and placed over the years on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sailoaxaca.com\/team\" target=\"_blank\">Oaxaca \u2013 a 50 foot Santa Cruz<\/a> built for open ocean racing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"(Audio 166) Sail Sport Talk with Karen Lile and Rick Tittle: Chris Childers; Michael Moradzadeh\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/715862143?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nearly 70 boats registered at the time of this interview May 31, 2022. The competition is fierce and the struggle to cross the Pacific is real. This is a hard won race with 40+ years of technical advances shaving off days from the 80\u2019s and 90\u2019s timing- for that matter still shaving off hours each passing year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not everyone finishes. Safety first when it comes to wind ripped sails and occasional de-mastings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"816\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/2021_TRANSPAC_071621_sg_015729.jpg?resize=1024%2C816&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3201\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/2021_TRANSPAC_071621_sg_015729.jpg?resize=1024%2C816&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/2021_TRANSPAC_071621_sg_015729.jpg?resize=300%2C239&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/2021_TRANSPAC_071621_sg_015729.jpg?resize=768%2C612&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/2021_TRANSPAC_071621_sg_015729.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reward is the race party at the end at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kaneoheyachtclub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kaneohe Yacht Club<\/a> \u2013 where family and friends fly over to meet the finishing crews and celebrate two weeks after the race start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2022 the race begins July 4th \u2013 if you are near the Golden Gate Bridge \u2013 its a site to be held. The first division of about 7 or 8 starts the races \u2013 the fist 3 days the toughest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pacificcup.org\/about-pcyc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Pacific Cup Yacht Club<\/a> was formed to run the Pacific Cup race from San Francisco Bay to Hawaii \u2013 committed to running a race that is competitive, fun, and safe, they operate the race with a focus on preparation and openness to a wide range of entrants, from tiny double handers to mega yachts and from family adventures to well-tuned racing syndicates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Sail Sport Talk with Karen Lile is aired inside the Rick Tittle Show every Tuesday morning at 9:37 hours, San Francisco time, sometimes beginning earlier with additional interviews. Rebroadcast happens 6 hours later and a Podcast is adde<\/em>d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/156-sail-sport-talk-with-karen-43716747\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>on iheart radio<\/em>\u00a0shorlty after the morning show<\/a>. There are over 700 radio stations that carry the show as part of their programming. But, for those mobile devices or on the internet in Europe, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tune In Radio<\/a> carries the live broadcast under the Sports Byline USA channel. Or you can just listen in by clicking on live streaming on the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsbyline.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.sportsbyline.com <\/a>website. <\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us as we interview Michael on his personal history with the bi-annual Pac Cup Regatta \u2013 a 2070 mile sailing race from San Francisco to Honolulu established in 1980. He has won and placed over the years on Oaxaca \u2013 a 50 foot Santa Cruz built for open ocean racing. Nearly 70 boats registered at the time of this interview May 31, 2022. The competition is fierce and the struggle to cross the Pacific is real. This is a hard won race with 40+ years of technical advances shaving off days from the 80\u2019s and 90\u2019s timing- for that&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[513,121,514,181,14],"tags":[517,142,33,45,143,53,44,119],"class_list":["post-3196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corinthian-yacht-club","category-unorganized-sport","category-kaneohe-yacht-club","category-recognitions","category-st-francis-yacht-club","tag-corinthian-yacht-club","tag-karen-lile","tag-picya","tag-racing","tag-rick-tittle","tag-sail-sport-talk","tag-sailing","tag-sailing-community"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/2021_TRANSPAC_071621_sg_015729.jpg?fit=1400%2C1116&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3196"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3220,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions\/3220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}