7th on leg 1

We started off the day with a great start right behind Mischa and held with him for a few miles until he began to pull away.

Battling upwind breeze of about 12-15 on the nose and confused sea state we were averaging between 9-12 knots. Hiccups today included our mainsheet ratchet giving out 10 miles into the 76 mile leg and running aground twice.

We were right up in the lead pack for the first 30 miles or so but struggled a bit from then on and lost touch with them.

We hit the beach in 7th place, about 15 minutes behind the boat in front of us. After running the boat really far onto the beach we were told "nice landing" by several people... apparently we ran the boat up at least twice as far as anyone else... it was pretty awesome... we were probably 50 feet above the tide line.