Aborted Monterey Bay Race

The last ocean race we did before Pac Cup. That's when the forecast promised 30 knots of downwind breeze and we ended up with less than 5 knots of upwind breeze. At 6:30 we weren't at Half Moon Bay yet...so we turned into HMB as opposed to continue all the way down to Monterey. I think that the problem with the weather is that Dayne was sailing on Red Sky on that race.

The Welcome Wagon at Half Moon Bay with pretty strong My Ties to the buoy
(and no, it's not a sea turtle in the water, it's just the reflection of the mark...)

Nathan jibing France on the return from HMB. We did have a nice downwind leg, not the promised 30 knots (we would have been flying...the problem with heavy air surfing and driving is that now anything less than 25 knots of breeze doesn't really feel exciting at all...) but a nice pleasant sail.