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Santa Cruz 50 – Hula Girl

_Hula Girl_, the renowned Santa Cruz 50 is a West Coast classic. She is skinny and light and very much built for downwind offshore racing. In the 2016 Pacific Cup she set a California to Hawaii record for any 50 footer of 7 days 20 hours, shaving nearly a day off the previous record.

Formerly the personal boat of America's Cup skipper and Volvo Around the World Race winner Paul Cayard, she has been modified and optimised and it truly a special boat. With the new keel, the boat is lighter and has less drag with the same righting moment. The new Hall rig is three feet taller than standard and has a modern swept-back spreader configuration providing more rig stiffness without the need for runners or checkstays.

Hula Girl flies masthead asymmetrical spinnakers off a long penalty pole. The grinding pedestal in the cockpit and Harken carbon three-speed winches make the long downwind legs a breeze.

The cockpit is small, nothing like the big cockpits of modern boats, but is a pretty comfortable interior, compared to the newer stripped down boats.

Construction: Fibreglass
3 spread swept back Hall Spars carbon mast
Electronics / Navigation Equipment: B&G displays on mast and in cockpit, Expedition on boat computer, Sat Phone, SSB with Pactor modem, AIS, GPS, VHF, plotter
Sail Wardrobe: Sails:Main, J1,J3, J4, A1, A2, A3, A4, Genoa Staysail, Spinnaker Staysail, Jib Top, Blast Reacher, Storm Sails, Delivery Sails
Accommodation: Simple racing interior; 8 berths and 1 heads
Racing Equipment: Pedestal to control the primaries
Harken carbon three-speed winches
Safety Equipment: 10 person liferaft,
Other Equipment: Spectra Watermaker
Fridge and Jet boil

Builder: Santa Cruz Yachts
Designer: Bill Lee
Built: 1980
LOA: 15.24 m
Beam: 3.66 m
Draft: 2.44 m
Displacement: 7,250 kg
Ideal Crew Number (Racing): 10
Region: North America

Events

Pacific Cup

13th July 2026 - 31st July 2026

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