Perfect sailing for leg 5 to Fernandina

The start of Leg 5 was in about 8 knots from the Southeast allowing for a spinnaker run. This was a big advantageous once again for the 20's. We had an amazing start, even though we started 1 minute behind on second row we got up to the lead pack almost immediately and hung in with them for a while and then jibed into shore. When we came back to some of the lead 20's we had caught up a lot and only lost a bit to them over the course of the day.

We saw some new types of sealife today including a manta ray the side of our trampoline, a few more turtles, and a couple small sharks. It's really cool to see so much sealife through this race.

Team Pepod had a 33 minute lead on us going into yesterday and we've now cut into that lead by about 18 minutes. We have been going lower and just as fast as them downwind the last two days and hope that can allow us to gain another 15 minutes on tomorrow's 120 mile leg which start has been moved up to 8AM.

We picked off 1 boat right before the finish today while we were double trap spin reaching the last 15 miles and finished 7th.

Off to dinner now!