Starting Islamorada finishing in Key West. Winds 25+, seas 3' to 6' close together,
Basically had to steer DDW due to power of waves. Coming up to get speed, to catch next wave.
Capsized once screaming/surfing down a wave, and the main jibed.

With a lot of sea weed on the rudder, about 5 miles from the finish, the rudder popped off the pintel
while jibbing and broke the tiller arm. (bad rudder retainer)
So we dropped the main, since in those wind/wave conditions one needed both rudders to jibe.
We were doing 6 to 8 knots under jib alone.

Another boat lost a rudder near finish, A M20 broke a spinnaker pole strut 1 hour into race and sailed back to start.

Chris
F16 #709

http://topofusion.com/tracker-sail.php Playback of the race is cool, be patient for download of playback.

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