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05/10/2001 - Leg 5: cat-alist.com following Team Dinghy Shop
Team Dinghy Shop Returns to Shore to Replace Starboard Rudder Casting Broken in the Surf. Causes 10 Minute Delay. Light Winds but Still Big Surf Hamper Teams.
Leg 5 - Daytona Beach, FL to Jacksonville Beach, FL - 79.0 mi statute miles.
Estimated arrival time is 4 to 6 PM.
Leg 5 Results - shows results for the day and overall.
10:34 AM: Mike Walker, Team Manager
The wind is about 5 knots out of the north and there is a 4 foot surf.
There is not enough wind to power through the surf, this caused problems for some boats, causing them to break rudders.
Because of the surf, Team Dinghy Shop waited about 40 seconds for the right conditions, then took off. They had to come back because they broke the starboard rudder casting. 10 minutes was lost during a quick change. They are back out again.
As reported by Zack Leonard:
Last night we reported that Team Bay Wind had capsized in the surf and lost their mast approaching the finish. The damage to the boat and crew was extensive. The boat buried it's bows into the sand surfing down a huge wave and pitchpoled into extremely shallow water, flipping forward and instantly decapitating the mast. The bows of both hulls were split open and all the forward, structural bulkheads were blown out of the hulls. Both Glenn Ross and Richard Pleasants were badly bruised in several places and were moving gingerly this morning. They were not able to start the leg. "I'm really disappointed," said three time Worrell veteran Pleasants, "we got two fifths on the first two legs and we were just learning the boat." Pleasants had praise for his first time partner Ross who has been acting as the tuning partner for Olympic Tornado contender Robbie Daniels for the past several years.
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