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Around the Island Race

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Around the Island Race
Just a quick post about the around the island race today. Another windy day, with windspeeds topping out at close to 30 knots again. We had a great day, although we had some gear failures, including a destroyed spinnaker sheet block, a broken Equiplite jib shackle splice, a completely shredded spinnaker, and a crack in the carbon-fiber cockpit coaming as a result of us falling off the back of an 8-foot swell in the Anguilla Channel. We match-raced the TP52 Panthera all day, which was a lot of fun until our kite blew up and we relinquished our hard earned boat-for-boat lead. The good news is we placed second overall in the eight-boat class, behind Panthera. Since we're the smallest boat in the class, we're pleased with our result It took us a little under four hours to complete the 34-mile race, and we once again saw some great boatspeed. Our owner, Ron O'Hanley did a great job on the helm, despite some huge waves and puffy wind conditions. We're all beat, but happy, and are looking forward to an early night, as tomorrow's schedule features two buoy races in the morning and a petite distance race in the afternoon. Time for a cold Heineken or two. Full Story »

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