Pacific Cup 2010 - Early starters face light winds

6:22 AM Thu 15 Jul 2010 GMT

'Pacific Cup 2010, Day 4 start San Francisco' Erik Simonson:h2oshots.com

The Pacific Cup is under-way, and for the thirty yachts that started out Monday and Tuesday for Hawaii, the big question is not 'where's the wind?' but 'how do we get there?' Just outside the Golden Gate, a band of very light breeze, delightful for beach-going but frustrating for sailors ready for heavy weather, poses a tricky challenge. With winds in the range of five knots (six miles per hour) this initial hurdle calls into play a set of skills not often used in Bay Area racing - light air sailing. If a yacht and her crew can get through ...

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