Kim Pandapas

Road To The Cup – Week 9

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*Road To The Cup – Week 9* *Top-10 as of 7/19/15* A 2015 season-high seven boats showed up to do beer-can battle last Thursday on a beautiful evening in a dying sea breeze. Our report this week is stitched together from the accounts of three participants –*Steve Uhl*, *John Casler* and *Kent Hallawell*. The course … Read more

Road To The Cup – Week 8

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*Road To The Cup – Week 8* *Top-10 as of 7/12/15* In case you didn’t know, Race Week starts next Monday. Next Monday!! Of course, our fleet won’t start until Thursday but Monday is the official kick-off of this 125+ year old event, starting with three days of Junior Race Week. If you’ve noticed an … Read more

Road To The Cup ­ Week 6

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*Road To The Cup – Week 6* *Top-10 as of 6/27/15* The mailbag this week was virtually overflowing with positive feedback about *Charlie Pendleton’s* two-week guest stint authoring this publication. In fact, the consensus view was that he actually added a little class to the rag. Well done, Charlie. One generous reader even went so … Read more

Road To The Cup – Week 5

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*Road To The Cup – Week 5 (East Coasts Edition)* *Top-10 as of 6/15/15* (With Kim traveling, this week’s Road To The Cup is brought to you by Charlie Pendleton.) We had a lot of racing activity this week between the Twilight Series, regular MRA Saturday and of course, the East Coast Champs. *Twilight Series*: … Read more

Road To The Cup – Week 3

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*Road To The Cup – Week 3* *Top-10 as of 6/7/15* In the mailbag this week, my observations of last week’s racing provoked some interesting comments, the most insightful of which came from a noted college coach and is paraphrased below: “That stuff you noticed about ducking boats – blowing the jib – check out … Read more

Road To The Cup ­ Week 2

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*Road To The Cup – Week 2* *Top-10 as of 5/31/15* There was no racing on Thursday night due to thunderstorms. This from *John Casler*, our man on the Twilight scene. “Three crews gathered at CYC to watch the well anticipated storm sweep in. There were no boats with sails up in the harbor. It … Read more

Road To The Cup ­ Mother’s Day Edition

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*Road To The Cup – Mother’s Day Edition* *2015 Preview** -5/9/15* You know you’re getting close when you start running into all if the familiar faces. I’ve run into virtually half the fleet in the past two weeks, and that was just at Crosby’s. Add in the fleet meeting, visits to the hardware store, yacht … Read more

Road To The Cup – Week 10 – Extended Race Week Edition

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As you know, there was no twilight racing Thursday night due to Race Week. Instead we were treated to Jennifer & Steve Uhl’s gracious hospitality, and by gracious, I mean completely over-the-top. How many sailing parties have you been to that had a champagne table? Jennifer defines graciousness – nobody does it better. Though now that I think of it, Steve ain’t so bad either and Thornton Uhl also served a drink or two, so I guess graciousness is a Uhl family tradition. Many thanks to all of them for again opening their home to us, and also to Elise Mazareas & Mike Nash for making sure we all got enough to drink.

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