"The big stuff it's going to be a challenge to keep the mast out of the racetrack."

I agree with that idea, but we just don't get that kind of wind and waves over here in the states. Maybe up on the north west pacific coast, it gets pretty windy and rough up there, but not so much on the east coast or in southern Cal.

I thought I had seen big wind and waves, having grown up on the seacoast of New Hampshire, just about 50 miles north of Boston. But then I saw the waves (20' plus) and winds (blowing 65) in Brighton and Dublin...WOW, you guys get some really nasty stuff over there sometimes! I've always thought that's why the I20 didn't catch on over there.