I have a tremendous amount of respect for all the tybee participants, and the list of those that are through the surf shows that the top teams are the ones that can handle the gnarly conditions, but still, why? Why not wait a day, furthermore, why even make people come crashing onto the beach or through the surf. To prove they are good sailors or racers or survivaists. I would suggest that a good MARINER would not put his/her vessel in such peril when given the choice not to. We all invest a lot of time and money in our boats and I have hard time seeing why start and finish lines for this particular distance race need to be on the beach rather than just offshore as in many other distance races, or why a start would even occur in such conditons......

flame on

charlie