Day: July 14, 2014

Pacific Cup Day 6 Recap – Running With Scissors

The last 24 hours went from fun, to exciting, to white knuckle. The night went really well, without any issues. The autopilot did a fine job of driving and we alternated trimming the kite. The seas remained fairly low, but building. This morning, though, we started getting more breeze in 20-25 knot range and the

Pacific Cup Day 5 – Extra! Extra! Edition

Today has been so much fun I had to write about it. Early this morning we were bombing along with the #2 sheeted to rail for the first time, actually doing that windy reach thing the “Pacific Cup brochure” talks about, then we switched to the gennaker and staysail and as the breeze built to