How many ocean miles do the Royal boats have on them (crew members also, for that matter)? They have been up and down that coast a bunch of times.
Larry's flesh colored boat has been up that coast a few times as well
The trackers aren't updating all that well right now - but best I can extrapolate, Marspeed and Key Sailing are VERY close together now. They were 8 seconds apart in the results at the start of today.
edit; nah, key sailing is still ahead by about 2 miles.
SolarWind and WaveyHaven are about 2000 feet apart...there's no resting between those two!
Were there any dog fighters in today's race?
Wind is steady on the beach. I think the finish is just past the pier to the north. Race committee not here quite yet.
I must be looking at it wrong, but I see Key Sailing with a 10 minute, 8 second lead before today's race. What am I missing?
The SIs said they were to carry SPOT trackers, so my guess is
no
- but that is purely a guess. They had the same safety requirements minus an EPIRB, so maybe people didn't want to do a one day race and have to set up/purchase all that gear. Dunno.
I must be looking at it wrong, but I see Key Sailing with a 10 minute, 8 second lead before today's race. What am I missing?
huh...well...I'll be. You are correct.
Kirk's spot is not updating. Any reports from the shoreline?
RE: Dogfighters
Nearly 30% attrition rate so far, and it hasn't
nuked
all week (although high teens going upwind for a few days in a row can make it feel worse).
While it would have been interesting, maybe it's better that the weekend warriors stayed home?
Mike
YaHoo, Daddy! The grandads still have it in them, but I have had my mast come down while in the lead. I will feel better when they cross the Finish Line, and I know Mark will be stoked!
PBYC is cheering them on for sure.
Don't jinx'm!
Are they under spinnaker? Marspeed going high (per the tracker anyway).
Cocoa Beach pier webcam (not exactly sure this is the only pier in Cocoa, but it looks like it):
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Black or Blue spin is in the picture when the camera pans to the south.
Dark spin boat coming by the end of the pier almost to beach.
Mark . . . Ice Cold Silver Bullet!!
STAT!!
Nice beachcam view of Royal Yellow . . .
and Royal Orange just behind . . .
Are you looking at the pier cam? or is there another one?
Try not having a jib and trying to drive through the surf with no board in and no rudders. They backed down on the second sandbar and lost their leeward rudder. Today the M20 went too far offshore in a tactical gamble that didn't pay.
@ Tad, I know Jake has lots of distance race experience and is a good sailor, but even he is fallible. I'm also not afraid of your resume so go ahead, post away.
The childish responses by a few to pure fact on this forum stopped me from posting correct information for the general masses.
Did we crash the beach cam?! <img src="<>/whistle.gif" alt="whistle" title="whistle" height="15" width="15" />
Same camera, diff website than I was watching. The reload every 30 seconds is a PITA.
thanks!
boat coming in now on the cam . . .
Whoa ... Waveyhaven overstood by a good bit (per the tracker). I know it is a lot easier sitting in my office). Might tha open the door for SolarWind?
Another boat . . . looks like Ding.
black spin with F18 on it
The Flesh Rocket!