It seems like competitors are having really tough first day. Lumpy and Machman camped at Coyo Costa from a dask. It is first time I see them sitting a night out. Interestingly, team on Hobie 18 JustAnotherSailor(aka Guy deBoer)and AtWitsEnd(aka Birchard Ohlinger) arrived and parked next to them not a long ago.
Another catamaran sailor LivinRight(aka Matt McGee)on, I guess A-cat or 18 sq, is not far behind, at checkpoint 1. Randy Smyth aka SewSew expirienced hardware failure and doing repaires about 40 miles behind leaders. Bunch of very fast paddlers aproaching checkpoint one.