Acctually start and finish lines are same, located on a same beach.
You sail around southern part of Florida, sail up east coast, paddle up St Marys river, walk 40 miles, paddle Suwannee river down, and sail west coast back to start line.

First three finishers did it very close to each other in 19 days and few hours. All three used compltely different boats (racing kayak, cruising kanoe and homebuilt sailboat)

This year Ultimate Florida Challenge was cancelled when number of racers dropped to five for different reasons.
So, next time Chief post notice of race, please sign up <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
I was thinking to do UF, just need to figure out how to attract sponsors...