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Morpheus was designed by Carl Schumacher, built by Davie Norris Boatbuilders in New Zealand and launched in 2002. She spent her first 18 months cruising the South Pacific before reaching her home port of San Francisco. Since that time, Morpheus has been raced and cruised extensively. This blog will document her ongoing adventures.

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Pacific Cup ’08 – Sour Grapes?? A loser’s perspective….

24 Jul 2008
Notes from the other side of the judges table.Jim Gregory turns into Simon Cowel offshore.The introduction of alternative scoring categories at the 11.9th hour added additional degrees of difficulty that…
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Pacific Cup ’08 – We took our foot off the throttle for an hour yesterday

23 Jul 2008
Yesterday's halfway party and Ugly Hawaiian Shirt Contest was a bit different this year. After the 2006 version, people understood that this was not an event to take casually and…
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Pacific Cup ’08 – Squalls to the left of us, Thunderclouds to the right…here we are, stuck in the squall zone again!!

22 Jul 2008
Great sailing between midnight and 8am this morning. Plenty of wind as squalls passed by one at a time giving us the opportunity to take advantage of the increased windspeeds…
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Pacific Cup ’08 – Midnight Monday

22 Jul 2008
Well, its been an interesting day out here today.Probably the most stressful to date as we were pretty much locked into our strategy and where we were going. We just…
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Pacific Cup ’08 – Transponder broken? Radio issues fixed. Doing what we came here for…

21 Jul 2008
Sorry for the lack of posting yesterday. Working hard to sail fast and go the right way. Seem to be doing a relatively decent job of doing that, but can…
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Pacific Cup ’08 – 3 Day Old Pizza

19 Jul 2008
10:45 AM, 7/19/2008470 miles out from San FranciscoOur second day was marginally more comfortable and a bit faster than day #1. All and all a good trade. Still 100% cloud…
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Pacific Cup ’08 – Johnny Ryan is actually with us!!

18 Jul 2008
Position reports just showed up and we are very pleased with our results to date. It's early days and all of us are really just out here setting up for…
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Pacific Cup ’08 – Fast out of the Gate!

18 Jul 200814 Jun 2015
Morpheus here. 9pm. All good. Winds as per forecast. We are not going slowly, and its a pretty wild ride. Sounds like Niagra Falls on deck, and pretty hard to…
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Pacific Cup ’08 – READY!!!!

12 Jul 200814 Jun 2015
Let's go sailing!!

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