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Leg 11 - Cape Hatteras windcast from Intellicast...
05/17/2001 - Leg 11: cat-alist.com following Team Dinghy Shop
Leg 11: It is 7:30 PM, the boats are still 22 miles from Hatteras. Looking like a 9 PM finish. Now rescheduled to 11:30 PM.
Leg 11 -Atlantic Beach, NC to Cape Hatteras, NC- 81.3 statute miles.
Estimated arrival time: 3-6 PM.
Leg 11 Results - shows results for leg 11 and overall.
8:20 AM Friday: Mike Walker, Team Manager
A short update from Friday morning. At this hotel in Hatteras, there is
only one phone line available for laptops to dial in and it is located in
the hotel office.
The team arrived quite late last night. The wind never got about 5 knots for most of the day for any length of time. Inspection of the Garmin GPS showed that they travelled 100 nautical miles over the course of the day and the 15 hour and 49 minute leg. The straight line distance is 81.3 NM. It was upwind most of the way. I will pass one the GPS tracks to www.cat-alist.com later tonight.
Channel 3 was onsite most of the day and provided 2 live updates. Even with no boats on the beach at 11 PM, they put together a great news package.
The team arrived about 2 AM and was immediately served a hot dinner and put to bed. Today, the start is still at 10 AM. No rest for the weary. It is night like this the put the test to the shore crews. Today we drive to Kill Devil Hills. The team makes the dangerous rounding of Cape Hatteras. As I write this, the wind looks pretty light, so we don't expect it to be much of a problem.
Scott Macdonald's girl friend and his parents arrived here yesterday as well to provide support to the team. They made the long trip from Vancouver. Anne hadn't slept in over 36 hours, and once Scott arrived, she wisked him away to her hotel room.
More to come...
4:08 AM Friday, webmistress
Safe and Sound!
Redhook Ale has arrived safely at 3:38 AM Friday.
Tybee Island and Keysailing came in at 2:14 and 2:22 AM respectively.
Dinghy Shop arrived in 11th place, at 1:49 AM, with a time this leg of 15 hours and 49 minutes. They were 31 minutes behind the leader.
Boats still to come in are:
Tybee Island
Redhook Ale
Key Sailing
Team Dinghy Shop has now tightened up on LexisNexis (in 6th place), there is only 1 minute difference. Tybee Island, in 5th place is now only half an hour away, whereas they were previously 58 minutes ahead.
12:39 AM Friday: webmistress
It is 12:39 AM and still no boat finishes have been posted. Field reports are that the wind has totally died.
Hatteras view from the lighthouse
Thanks to those that have contributed to the Replace the Mast fund. Everyone's support has been a great boost to the team.
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