Team Seacats

Overall, it was a good start for the teams today. They left the beach in two heats, one minute apart and based on yesterday’s finish times. Of course, all the boats are being judged on corrected time between the two classes so finish times into Hollywood (or those during any other leg) aren’t necessarily representative of the actual statistics.

It was a spinnaker start with a good breeze coming from the South Southeast and will clock around to a South wind for the remainder of the day. It should be a fast ride up to Jupiter. Team Royal Green bumped into Seacats Orange at the bow and then at the stern like a pair of bumper cars. There was not enough contact to cause damage, thankfully, and the guys were trying to physically push each other apart. By the time I left the beach, the favored starters Team Royal Yellow seemed to have the lead with another boat bearing down on them hard. My guess is that it was Whike or Magic Marine. One boat (unknown, but it may have been one of the Velocity teams) flipped shortly after the start but was righted within a few minutes and they are back running behind the pack.

An update on the mishaps yesterday: Todd of Catfever apparrently bumped his noggin during his dismount off the high side of the boat when they flipped in the surf. Todd Riccardi of Team Adrenalin may have gotten too big for his britches when he blew out the heinie of his harness. Jake of Seacats Orange also has a smallish split in his harness but is sailing with it today before considering the purchase of a new one. Fingers crossed that works out okay. Karl Langefeld of Stray Cats wasn’t the only on to split their kite yesterday but they managed to have it repaired overnight at a local shop. Now that’s good customer service.  They were going to borrow our spare if worse came to worse. I’m not certain what Royal Orange fixed their torn spinnaker but, between their four teams, they were mosy likely prepared for that possibility.

See you in Jupiter, boys and girls!