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05/12/2001 - Leg 7 AM: cat-alist.com following Team Dinghy Shop
Today the team gets to sleep in as the race makes the switch to night mode. The start is at 6 PM, leaving Tybee Island for Isle of Palms, South Carolina, just north of Charleston.
Leg 7 PM - Tybee Island, GA to Isle of Palms, SC (night leg) - 83.5 statute miles.
Estimated arrival time is 11 PM to 2 AM on Sunday.
Leg 6 Results - shows results for the day and overall.
9:44 AM, Mike Walker:
Team Dinghy shop left Jacksonville and little or no wind yesterday, but
still had to deal with a surf problem. Kevin pushed the team as far as
possible, but that still left one set of breakers to get through. It took
Reigh and Scott a few more minutes, but we didn't break anything and got
away.
Fully Involved was the next boat ahead of us that we had in our sights (on time), and, unfortunately they had problems getting off the beach. They broke another rudder casting in the surf (actually, it may have been 2, as they where launched twice).
As the shore crew travels up the coast (a much longer drive-300km, as we have to travel inland), Team Dinghy Shop rockets towards the next checkpoint. They are doubled trapped and the GPS recorded a maximum speed of 20 knots. They also travelled 121 nautical miles on their trip. They rhumb line of the route was 102 nautical miles.
About an hour after the start, the wind came up allowing them to set the kite and enjoy a downhill ride towards Tybee Island. For those in Ontario, Tybee Island is the Wasaga Beach of Savannah. The crowd at the beach was quite large, as the town of Tybee supports their team in the Worrell 1000.
Reigh had to avoid a turtle at about 1 mile off the beach and this caused him to dump the boat. No damage to the boat and the turtle is fine as well. We lost about 6 minutes here, and 2 boats passed us. But, we are now in 2nd place, as Fully Involved must have had some serious problems and was the last boat to arrive last night. Guidant it hot on our tails now in a virtual tie.
This puts us in some very fine company. Guidant is sailed by Rod Waterhouse who has won this event a number of times.
Tonight, we start the night leg at 6PM and travel to Isle of Palms.
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