Owned by Jay & Emily Hoffman, Pu'uhonua is an Outremer 51.
​A performance oriented, blue water catamaran, custom built in La Grande Motte, France. She was finished in 2015 and sailed by her owners and Claudia Dengler & Jan Cluistra from La Grande Motte, France to Harbor Town Marina in Dania Beach, Florida with stops in:
La Grande Motte, France to Linea de la Conception - Spanish port next to Gibraltar (700 nm in 4 days)
Linea, Spain to Puerto Calero, Lanzarote, Canaries (600 nm in 3.5 days)
Lanzarote to Mindelo, Sao Vicente, Cape Verde (1200 nm in 5 days)
Cape Verde to Simpson Bay, Sint Maarten, West Indies (11 days)
Sint Maarten to Port Everglades, Florida ( in 6 days)

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Equipment

Not one engine hour used for charging during the entire voyage - credit to the Watt & Sea hydro generator and the solar array. On the 'fail' side, we had 3 prop blades break on the Watt & Sea from what appeared to be entanglement with Sargasso seaweed.








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Watt & Sea Hydrogenerators

Creatures

Fin whales visited us for 4 days, 2-4 whales at a time, swimming giant loops around the boat and rolling onto their sides to have a look when they came alongside.  This photo is of a pigeon that joined us off the coast of Cuba.  He did not clean up after himself, so we invited him to leave as we passed Great Inagua in the Bahamas. Still looking for a good shot of a fin whale.

Whales

A Pantry

Probably the only boat I'll ever see with a full fledged pantry.  What a pleasure for a foodie!