All teams accounted for and on shore. 4 boats (of 14) completed the leg today. Tomorrow's leg is skipped, everyone drives north. Racing resumes on Thurs from Jax.
One thing I forgot to mention is that all the top boats but Randy had some kind of incident. Second boat in hit a turtle and had an MOB situation. Other boats had other turtle crashes, or didn't realize they were carrying seaweed. Sonnenklar had the leeward (port) shroud detached (how did this...
Agreed on Randy. Impressive. Top 4 boats are Nacra F18, identically configured I think – except one of the teams has a regular main rather than decksweeper.
There's a couple Akurras and there's at least one C2.
The listing is on the website (competitors page). It got updated recently. Some...
Was there yesterday. There's good stuff being posted on FB. Some teams promise to livestream the start. One boat has a 14yo crewing for a couple legs - my son (12yo) would love to drive a couple legs. In fact if Florida 300 comes back we'd be game.
Go Team Sonnenklar!
I'm about to go to the beach and hang out with the teams. Will take a video or two.
Was hoping to sail along the first leg but lots of family/work logistics had to line up and they didn't.