Finally a finish in daylight!

Starting in Daytona was quite the adventure... very very light wind and pretty decent surf. Many teams had a hard time getting out of the surf. Luckily we got out in just a couple minutes, right behind the leaders. We got out of the surf, trimmed in and realized that our main halyard had come unhooked so we had to re-raise and lock our sail on the water.
Once we got going we were sailing at around 5-7 knots then the wind slowly started picking up and we went to single trapezed and eventually to double trapezed. We sailed the last 70 miles of the 99 mile leg double trapezed, fully powered up with the spinnaker up sailing at speeds of 11-16 knots. We were made up some ground sailing just outside of the surf line up the Florida coast for 40 miles or so until we came across the Jacksonville jetty. Unforunatley we were not aware of this obstacle and by the time we saw it were forced to sail straight upwind for 2-3 miles to go around it. During this time we lost a couple boats that we thought we had passed by sailing inshore. It was a dissapointment but we marked the end of the breakwater on our GPS for next year!
We saw TONS of wildlife today from Manta Rays, to turtles, to dolphins, and etc. It was very cool. The scenery on the shore was also neat... we saw lots of interesting architecture... leave it to FL.
We pulled into the beach at around 6PM in 13th place... tying for our best finish yet. Luckily the best part about being 13th is it means we will be the furthest left in the second row of the start tomorrow.. much better than being last in the first row.
We will need any advantage we can get as it is going to be a long sail to Tybee Island tomorrow. The mielage is around 107. If we break down there is pretty much no where to pull out, a couple years ago some guys had to overnight on the desolate GA coast. We look forward to getting to Tybee in one piece and completing our first Tybee 500!
Hope to see you at Tybee Island!