Would like Jake's input on completing the following (as they pertain to your EC experience):
"I wished I would have carried...."
"I never thought I'd have..."
"I'm glad I prepared for the EC by...."
"I wished I hadn't brought...."
"What I SHOULD have used (instead of)..."
"The coolest thing I didn't expect was...."
"The worst thing I didn't expect was...."
"When I do the EC next year, I'll...."
All you'll get out of me for now is "I wish I didn't stop to try and sleep". It took a lot of time, we didn't get much (spent four hours to get 1.5 hours of real sleep), and it partially cost us 2nd place. I'm early and deep into dreaming on designs and/or modifications for next year and it will be a dark shed project to be revealed when it's too late for people to steal ideas.
We were fast...very fast...but not fast enough to catch Smyth. If it weren't for tidal doors and weather windows (i.e. if we were sailing in identical conditions side by side), I'm figuring Smyth probably would have beat us by about 6 hours on 36 hours of sailing...so we need to find 15% more speed / efficiency to at least have a shot at knocking on his door. We have a few other things to refine.
