I’ve been watching and creaming about this race for years.
Hey ahh I'm interested in doing this race next year and I'm having trouble with this draggin across the finish line and the flats? Could the line be moved so perhaps you could sail across it? Maybe its part of the mystic I'll have to experience, or maybe not.
Absolutely not - dealing with that )(*U#@#$)* beach is your initiation. It tests your intellect to properly evaluate how much your boat will slip sideways without boards or rudders so you can calculate how much to overstand to avoid as much trodgging through the silt as possible. Then it tests your resolve when you have sailed so hard, so long, fought tooth and nail for every position, and then spend 20 minutes trying to overcome the last 50 yards of 50 miles while your competitors grimace in pain and exertion while trying to regain that position which they had previously thought to have lost. The boat that was on the horizon 5 minutes before is a mere whisper away and slowly inching to the finish. One more ounce of energy and resolve and it's yours! It's the Steeplechase Damnit! Into the creek and over the woods with yeee. If a little silt will stand in your way, this race is not for you. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />