Update
by Bonnie on May.15, 2009, under 2009 Tybee 500
According to the transponders found on the live tracking found on the the official Tybee 500 site, it looks like Royal Green has dropped to last place, a well ways behind Cat in the Hat. Royal Green had a great start and were the third to pop their spinnakers behind Royal Yellow and Seacats Orange so I’m only guessing that Jamie and Leondro may have encoutered some technical difficulties. This map from Topofusion isn’t an indicator of the overall positions since only about six boats are covered by the technology although it is quite nice to estimate the general position of the fleet. As it stands from the last time I checked TCDYC, Royal Yellow, and Royal Orange were rounding up the top three.
May 15th, 2009 on 3:36 PM
That site is addictive, I’m spending way too much time at work watching the race.
I was wondering the same thing about Green, but if you click their “bubble” the last update was 3 hours ago. So they may have dropped to the beach, but the transponder may just not be broadcasting.
Keep up the great reporting and see you Saturday.
May 17th, 2009 on 6:25 PM
Thanks for reading last week. Good to know I wasn’t just talking to myself.