Pacific Cup 2008 start

Double-Handed division 2 start

a close pack of wolves :)

Elise, loaded up like a truck and feeling like a bus! Note the dodger from Magic Jason (shortened so we could sheet in the main hard)...

We were still getting dressed on our way to the start but we made it with half an hour to spare thanks to Eric and Lorraine. There was a battle for the pin. Nathan decided n0t to participate, so he headed up to slow the boat down. I think that I might have preferred to categorically head for the other end of the line, to the leeward of the other boats as out on the other side of the line, there was cleaner air.



After the start, heavy tacking, carefully looking at current lines to get out the gate and toward the Farallones. There was a lot of breeze by the bridge and we had our number 3 up (jib). Soon after we passed Bonita Pt, we switched to the #1 as the breeze got increasingly light...

Several packs of dolphins swam with us for a fairly l0ng time, they must then have gotten discouraged by our poor speed performance in light air...



A shark circled around the boat near the Farallones, probably thinking 'i didn't know they were doing the tourist runs that late in the summer'. We could see the menacing fin for a little while...



We slowly settled for the night in a 5 knot breeze and could see the Farallones islands for a very very very long time...We both stayed up until 7PM and then started our watch schedule:
2 hours on and 2 hours off at night
4 hours on and 4 hours off during the day

7-11PM - Nathan
11Pm - 1AM - Nat
1AM - 3AM- Nathan
3AM- 5AM - Nat
5AM - 7AM - Nathan
7AM - 11AM - Nat
11AM - 3PM - Nathan
3Pm - 7PM - Nat