Sun. Water. Adventure.

Some of This Log Is Already Written.

Every expedition needs a bar. This one was named at Turnagain Arm, Alaska — one of the most geologically dramatic stretches of water in the world, and the place where the Alaska to San Diego run found its rhythm. Turnagain Arm got its name in 1778 when William Bligh — sailing master for Captain James Cook, later infamous for the Bounty mutiny — was sent to survey the inlet looking for the Northwest Passage. He had to turn around. Twice. He named it Turnagain in exasperation. The arm generates the largest tides in the United States — up to 40 feet — and twice a day those tides collide in the narrow channel and produce one of the largest tidal bore waves on earth: a wall of water up to ten feet high, moving at fifteen miles per hour, stretching the full width of the inlet. Local surfers ride it for miles. Harbor seals ride it in. Beluga whales follow. Four tides. Two bores a day. The same water, returning. That's the bar. Named at the place where Cook had to turn around — because this expedition doesn't.

Some of this logbook is already written — and some of it was written in blood.

The Alaska to San Diego run was an education that no classroom delivers. Threading the Inside Passage south through Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, and Sitka — magnificent, unforgiving country that does not care about your schedule or your confidence. The cold gets into everything. The storms materialize out of nowhere, no warning, no apology. You learn fast what preparation actually means when the temperature is dropping and the spot you were counting on is no longer an option. You learn to read the sky earlier. You learn that the sea does not negotiate.

Mistakes were made on that run. Some of them hurt. None of them sank the boat. Shamrocket survived everything the Pacific coast threw at her — and every hard lesson from that run is now burned into the foundation this expedition stands on.

The Sea of Cortez was something else entirely. Eight months. From Cabo San Lucas north through the whale sharks circling Isla Espíritu Santo, the sea lion colonies barking at Los Islotes, the pristine desert anchorages of Agua Verde and Puerto Balandra near Loreto. La Paz as a base. Mazatlán across the Sea. Puerto Vallarta, Manzanillo, Zihuatanejo, and all the way down to Acapulco. Eight months of the most magnificent coastline and sea life on the planet — blue whales, humpbacks, manta rays, remote islands with turquoise water so clear you can read the bottom at forty feet. After the cold and the storms of the Pacific Northwest, the Sea of Cortez recalibrated everything.

Now it's time to do this at a scale no one has seen before.

Three Expeditions. One Life.

The Blue Rim 5 is not a sailing trip. It is three sequential expeditions aboard Shamrocket — a 17-foot Hobie Getaway catamaran with a 24-inch draft — departing Pensacola November 1, 2026 and completing approximately July 2030 at La Paz, Mexico. After the Pacific, Shamrocket returns to Panama, portages to the Caribbean side, and stays. The true finish line is the Caribbean — lived out for the rest of what remains.

This Is Not Escape. It's the Point.

The adventure matters. But so does everything around it — the evenings at anchor, the food, the people, the stories, the rituals. That's the other half of this. What the Mint Julep is to horse racing, the Rim Runner is to this expedition.