Thanks for the clarification Matt. It will be interesting to see what that does to the results.

I for one am not surprised at the standings. The 16 fleet at this level is stoked with rock stars, just being near the top 20 is a huge accomplishment. There are probably not less than 10 teams who came into it with an excellent chance of winning it all.

What is a bit more surprising is how bad the "bad" races were for a number of excellent sailors. I'm sure that had more to do with the conditions / capsizes / breakdowns, as we saw in RI in 2006.

I gotta figure John's comment was an inside joke? I'm figuring Captain Obvious would say 2 throwouts are probably something he's advocated???

Mike