While assisting with preparations to a sailboat that I race on, the 2007 McConaghy-built Reichel/Pugh 55 Zvi, I got thinking that doing another trip across the Pacific Ocean would make a fun summer vacation. Zvi was signed up to race in the 2022 Pacific Cup and had just done the 2021 Transpac Race the previous year. Unfortunately, […]
Sailing across the ocean has always been on “the list” but, for some reason, I wasn’t sure it would ever actually happen. It just seemed like such a far fetched and crazy idea, and how many people really do something like that? Well, it happened, and it was an awesome time, with an amazing group […]
Spokane, Washington based sailors Dave and Rae Ann Duer are loyal to the Hallberg-Rassy brand. They purchased a new HR 34 from Pete McGonagle in 1999 and had it shipped to Singapore where Dave was working. They sailed this boat in SE Asia and then shipped it to the USA and sold it soon after […]
Don’t be alarmed…we’re talking about the Allures 39.9 Big Bear. Brian and Emily visited the Swiftsure Yachts sales dock on Lake Union during their Seattle stopover en route to northern cruising grounds. Brian ordered Big Bear in 2013 and spent two weeks testing systems and gear in Cherbourg, France before shipping her from Southampton, UK […]
We love it when our clients get to meet up and cruise in company throughout the world. This picture was sent to us by Michael and Jill Gallin on the 2017 Allures 45.9 Gerty in the historic port of Valletta on the island of Malta. They’re enjoying a second summer season in the Mediterranean after crossing the […]
SAM, a custom 1990 fixed keel Garcia 48-foot aluminum cutter, passed Cape Flattery, Washington in early September after a 13,000 mile loop of the North Pacific from San Francisco and Baja California onward to the Hawaiian Islands, Dutch Harbor and then to Kodiak Island, Juneau, Haida Gwaii and western Vancouver Island. Along the way, SAM’s […]
Billed as the “World’s Biggest Offshore Race”, the Fastnet Race is an infamously grueling test of sailors’ seamanship and racing skills and the mettle of the yachts they race on. Considered to be a “bucket list event” by many avid racers, we’re excited to have Swiftsure’s own Brad Baker set to participate in this year’s […]
Neither rain nor snow nor sleet nor hail……. can keep Swiftsure Yachts from doing a sea trial. Flyer, our 2008 Outbound 46 listing, was sea trialed on Tuesday, January 14 with Pete McGonagle and Bay Area buyers, with the survey set for the following day. For some reason, no other boats were out sailing on […]
Swifture Yachts’ clients sure are living it up in Southeast Alaska this summer! We’ve received numerous emails with amazing images of gorgeous anchorages and stunning glaciers from “The Last Frontier”. By all accounts, it has been a particularly good weather year throughout Alaska and our customers are certainly taking advantage, or as they say, “Living […]
It’s alway fun to look back on some of the deliveries we’ve done with our clients. This particular one was aboard the Stevens 47 Totem in 2007: As the wheels of our Alaska Airlines jet touched the tarmac at Oakland International airport, I looked out the window to see overcast skies, a gray contrast to […]