We are off tomorrow morning to head down to FL for the Tybee 500. The plan is to be there midday Thursday and in Islamorada for Thursday night. Unfortunatley school is getting in the way for Brendon, he will be flying down Saturday morning. Todd will be picking up team manager Bret Sullivan in NJ and the two will be driving down from there. Sometime Thursday we will be picking up our other road crew, Angela, the coolest chick ever!
We have been busy practicing up in Newport, RI for the last month. Barry Moore was gracious enough to loan us his boat as ours is in South Florida in the enclosed trailer. Despite 40 degree water, we got some great practice days in. Almost everyday was 15-25 knots, perfect practice!We managed to only capsize once and of course we chose our first day which was by far the coldest. Maybe if we pretend the water during the Tybee is only 40 degrees we will make sure we stay upright! In all fairness though, as I write this the water temps in Newport are a toasty 48 degrees so we did get spoiled a bit towards the end haha. Team Moose-Burd also joined us for our last week of practice, those guys are looking good and with that big dumb animal in control of the front of the boat you can be sure they will be pushing it to the limit.
Stay tuned for an update at the end of the week from Islamorada!
The above picture was taken by the friendly Race Committee of the local Laser frostbite fleet on April 5th.
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