Not in quite the best placing as we have been the last few days, but not too bad, 12th place. It was really ideal Nacra 20 conditions with light winds upwind and dead downwind and a low jib reach around the exclusion zone that was too low for us to carry our spinnakers.
We battled it out all day with Team Pepod, the other F18 Infusion and ended up being them by 9:59, for the first time so far this race.
After being dropped off Cape Canaveral we decided to keep going out, we were too far behind to see that the leaders had jibed in and didn't feel like it was the right move. We ended up going nearly 20 miles off shore, we lost sight of land for several hours. It's really hard to trust an arrow on a GPS when you look where it's pointing and there is nothing there! Going around Cape Canaveral it was very light winds and it slowly picked up as we got closer to Daytona. Unfortunately we found out upon arriving on the beach that the wind had filled on shore much sooner.
Unfortunately our teammates on Team Seacats White have retired from the race due to damage... this is very dissapointing as they are great guys and this is the 2nd year in a row this has happened.
Tomorrow we are off to Fernandina, one of my favorite stops of this race. If the conditions are like they were at the finish today it will be a great run.
Below are pictures of our finish in Cocoa Beach Yesterday.
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