After having spent more than a decade of my life covering the sport of sailing, I thought that I’d experienced it all: Volvo Open 70s, super maxis, mini maxis, IMOCA 60s, and high-performance dinghies, not to mention plenty of well-sailed Corinthian-level monohulls. But then I received an email from Nicola Breymaier, inviting me to join her husband, Ryan Breymaier, one of America’s most accomplished single-handed skippers, in San Francisco aboard the 105-foot trimaran, Lending Club 2 (ex Banque Populaire VII). The email had barely arrived by the time I was booking my plane tickets to SFO.
I knew the day was going to be special when … More