Team Seacats

We passed the pack on the A1A at exactly 10:48am. Tim blew the horn and I yelled at them. Mike on SailMax I heard us and waved back! It was so incredibly cool. As of our passing, the order of the top five was as follows: Pirates, Tybee, SailMax I, Coconut Grove, and SailMax II. It was another light air start with paddling allowed through the surf this morning with Pirates getting well away of the other boats followed closely by Tybee. Both SailMax teams had a good start as well. Morada seemed to struggle a little bit through a couple of waves, but then made up time and quickly pulled ahead. There was some talk of delaying the start of the race for an hour to allow the sea breeze breeze to build, but they began exactly at 10am. The racing committee has determined that two teams will incur a twenty minute penalty from their overall time. Hopefully, they will be able to make up that time with a strong, competitive leg up to Fernandina today. There have been some threatening clouds overhead further onshore today but they have begun to clear and now it’s just a hazy, sunny day. Oh, and our resident naturalist, Chris Zander, found a nurse shark egg on the beach this morning. There’s a photo of it in today’s photo gallery. Also, a big Thank You to the Steve Caron and the local Hobie 80 fleet out of Daytona Beach for the great Italian buffet dinner last night!