Click on images below for videos!     Mr. Jim Eisenhart and crew took to the Pacific and raced the VCG Sponsored, Sauvage to Honolulu in the Bi-Annual Transpacific Yacht Race.  Here is a short video of that journey.  Enjoy. Also, here is the team Sauvage 2011 Transpac preparation and planning meeting video:   #1. Preparation is everything. As a team and individually, we spent over 6 months and most weekends

Think about your romantic relationship. Studies show that unless your positive interactions with your partner outnumber the negative interactions by a ratio of 5 to 1, the relationship is likely to fail. Yes, it takes 5 good interactions to make up for every 1 bad interaction. The 5 to 1 Ratio has another application. Studies show that negative information, negative experiences, and negative interactions have a far deeper impact on

#1.  Preparation is everything. As a team and individually, we spent over 6 months and most weekends either sailing, meeting or fixing/fabricating stuff for the boat.  We also did several ‘preparatory’ races.   The assumption was, stuff will break, things will go wrong,sails will blow out, lines will chafe thru.  Just like a construction project.  So either seek to prevent them as much as possible and then have a backup plan.  We were fortunate, nothing major happened except that the