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Pacific Cup Racers Into More Breeze

Dean Treadway’s venerable Farr 36 Sweet Okole leads the Pacific Cup fleet as it stands right now.

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After a slow first 24 hours, Monday’s starters — which included the two doublehanded divisons and Division A — in the 2008 Pacific Cup finally got into some breeze as they were joined on the course by Divisions B and C yesterday. A forecasted northwesterly breeze filled yesterday, but the damage appears to have been done to the earliest starters, as today’s position reports have all of them in the back of the fleet overall.

If the Division B start is any indication, they’ll be sailing an aggressive 2,070 miles to Kaneohe Bay.

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So far Joby Easton’s Cascade 36 Raindrop — which, in case you’re wondering, looks a hell of a lot nicer than it did when the picture on the Pacific Cup website was taken — is leading Doublehanded 1. In Doublehanded 2, Darrel Jensen’s Express 27 Alternate Reality is leading the way, with two of the Moore 24s chasing close behind. In Division A Steve Waterloo’s Cal 40 Shaman has squeaked into the lead in this tight group. In Divison B Chris Gibbs’ Wyliecat 39 Checkered Past is out in front and right behind the Divison C leader, Dean Treadway’s Farr 36 Sweet Okole, for the overall lead. Division D starts today, looking to take advantage of the freshening breeze and weather that, at least for the first half of the course, seems to be settling in and looking fast. Check out the Pacific Cup website at the link above for great tracker and racer’s blog updates.

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The tracks of their tears. For the first three days, the Solo TransPac racers were frustrated with light-to-no winds but the breeze has finally filled in.