Wizard winning the Barn Door in 2013
Today we tack off for Hawaii. Most of the time it is a very nice fast race in the trade winds. But not today. There is ex hurricane making a mess of the trades. You might think we should get south and hit it hard, but it is not moving toward HI, it is going to fizzle out and kill the trades. In fact, we might have rain around the start. The first 300 miles will be the hardest with light winds from everywhere.
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There has been two starts already, the classes that started first are in good normal winds and will most likely win the race. Lending Club, decided not to start the race today and went off on a record run leaving on Wednesday and they are over 1/2 way and will break the record for the crossing. The boats that started Thursday, are in little wind and are stuck...
Here you have our routing, finish is around 8 days. Wizard when it was Bella Mente has the non power mono hull record of 6 days 19 hrs.. No chance for that this year.
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