Pacific crossing on a Mason 63 (pt 1)

⚓ Be The Captain (Free Worldwide Shipping This Week Only! + 10% off Defender & 20% off PredictWind): 📖 English (First Edition Hardcover): https://bethecaptain.com/products/be-... 🇪🇸 Español: https://a.co/d/08yiAfse Refit, sea trial, cast off—and a 3,300-nautical-mile Pacific crossing begins. In this episode, we set sail aboard Te Vega, a 1984 Mason 63 ketch, beginning a long offshore passage from Hawaii to California. You’ll see the refit work, sea trials, and the moment we finally cast off and commit to the open ocean. This is the start of a multi-part series documenting what offshore sailing is really like—long days, real preparation, real decisions, and life aboard a serious bluewater monohull far from land. If you’re curious about offshore passagemaking, classic heavy-displacement boats, or what it actually takes to go the distance, this series is for you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ☕ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Help us keep uncovering and telling these stories: ⚔️ Join the Inner Circle on Patreon:   / bethecaptain   🍺 Buy the crew a beer / one-time tip: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/svzin... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚓ RECOMMENDED GEAR & PARTNERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Defender Marine — Outfitting boaters since 1938 with trusted marine gear, expert advice, and refit supplies: 👉 Shop Defender Marine: https://defender.com/en_us/ • PredictWind — The world leader in offshore marine weather forecasting, routing, and departure planning: 👉 Check out PredictWind: https://www.predictwind.com/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌊 WATCH THE FULL PACIFIC CROSSING SERIES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▶️ Part 1:    • Pacific crossing on a Mason 63 (pt 1)   ▶️ Part 2:    • Catch and cook: Mahi Mahi out to sea!  (Pa...   ▶️ Part 3:    • Final leg of a 3300 miles Pacific Crossing...   ▶️ Part 4:    • Sailing in heavy weather & big waves 600 m...   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 ABOUT THE CHANNEL ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ True stories from the sea — the rescues, the wrecks, and the choices that decide who comes home. You don't have to be a sailor to feel them. But if you are, they might change the way you feel about the water. 🔔 Subscribe and turn on notifications so you don't miss the next one. 📷 Archival photographs courtesy of press/public archives. If you hold the rights to any image used here and would like credit or removal, please contact captain@bethecaptain.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TAGS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #Mason63 #PacificCrossing #OffshoreSailing #BoatRefit #SailingZingaro #BeTheCaptain