Pacific Cup 2010 Excellent daily runs as leaders find strong winds

4:40 AM Tue 13 Jul 2010 GMT

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

Pacific Cup 2010 - The fifty-odd racers on the way from San Francisco to Kaneohe Bay, Oahu are cheering: wind is at hand. The maddeningly light winds that plagued the start of the sixteenth biennial Pacific Cup, billed as 'the FUN Race to Hawaii,' are now a distant memory. For the three hundred sailors in the race, the FUN has begun. Early starters charged out under the Golden Gate Bridge only to find a 'parking lot' of wind-less sea. This morning, however, virtually the entire fleet has found winds as strong as they'd want to sail their yachts as they'd ...

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